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Title:

Capitalism takes command : the social transformation of nineteenth-century America / edited by Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

viii, 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Capitalism--United States--History--19th century.
Capitalism--Social aspects--United States.
United States--Economic conditions--19th century.
United States--Social conditions--19th century.

Other Authors:

Zakim, Michael.
Kornblith, Gary John.

Notes:

Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: an American revolutionary tradition / Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith -- The agrarian context of American capitalist development / Christopher Clark -- The mortgage worked the hardest: the fate of landed independence in nineteenth-century America / Jonathan Levy -- Toxic debt, liar loans, collateralized and securitized human beings and the panic of 1837 / Edward E. Baptist -- Inheriting property and debt: from family security to corporate accumulation / Elizabeth Blackmar -- Slave breeding and free love: an antebellum argument over slavery, capitalism, and personhood / Amy Dru Stanley -- Capitalism and the rise of the corporation nation / Robert E. Wright -- Capitalist aesthetics: Americans look at the London and Liverpool docks / Tamara Plakins Thornton -- William Leggett and the melodrama of the market / Jeffrey Sklansky -- Producing capitalism: the clerk at work / Michael Zakim -- Soulless monsters and iron horses: the Civil War, institutional change and American capitalism / Sean Patrick Adams -- Afterword: Anonymous history / Jean-Christophe Agnew.

ISBN:

0226451100 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226451107 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226451097 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226451091 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)714726308

LCCN:

2011023776

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)