Capitalism takes command
Subtitle: the social transformation of nineteenth-century America
By: edited by Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780226451091; 9780226451107
Subjects: Social conditions; Capitalism; Economic conditions; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: an American revolutionary tradition / Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith; title: The agrarian context of American capitalist development / Christopher Clark; title: The mortgage worked the hardest: the fate of landed independence in nineteenth-century America / Jonathan Levy; title: Toxic debt, liar loans, collateralized and securitized human beings and the panic of 1837 / Edward E. Baptist; title: Inheriting property and debt: from family security to corporate accumulation / Elizabeth Blackmar; title: Slave breeding and free love: an antebellum argument over slavery, capitalism, and personhood / Amy Dru Stanley; title: Capitalism and the rise of the corporation nation / Robert E. Wright; title: Capitalist aesthetics: Americans look at the London and Liverpool docks / Tamara Plakins Thornton; title: William Leggett and the melodrama of the market / Jeffrey Sklansky; title: Producing capitalism: the clerk at work / Michael Zakim; title: Soulless monsters and iron horses: the Civil War, institutional change and American capitalism / Sean Patrick Adams; title: Afterword: Anonymous history / Jean-Christophe Agnew.