the social transformation of nineteenth-century America /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 358 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations,
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Capitalism-- Social aspects-- United States
Capitalism-- United States-- History-- 19th century