Capitalism Takes Command The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America

Name: Capitalism Takes Command The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780226451107

ISBN-10: 0226451100

ISBN-13: 9780226451107

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael Zakim, Gary J. Kornblith

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Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies,Capitalism Takes Commandpresents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America’s new revolutionary tradition.This multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy, but also that the revolution was not confined to the destruction of an agrarian past. As…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 7.40" wide x 8.90" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Michael Zakim is associate professor of history at Tel Aviv University.

Gary J. Kornblith is professor of history at Oberlin College and the author of Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776-1821.