Capitalism by gaslight
Subtitle: illuminating the economy of nineteenth-century America
By: edited by Brian P. Luskey and Wendy A. Woloson
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Early American studies; Early American studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780812246896; 9780812291025
Subjects: Social conditions; Capitalism; Economic conditions; Informal sector (Economics); History
Notes: "The essays here contain revised and expanded versions of many of the papers presented at a conference jointly sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Library Company of Philadelphia"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Loomis Gang's market revolution / Will B. Mackintosh; title: The promiscuous economy: cultural and commercial geographies of secondhand in the antebellum city / Robert J. Gamble; title: The era of shinplasters: making sense of unregulated paper money / Joshua R. Greenberg; title: The rag race: Jewish second-hand clothing dealers in England and America / Adam Mendelsohn; title: Lickspittles and land sharks: the immigrant exploitation business in antebellum New York / Brendan P. O'Malley; title: "The world is but one vast mock auction": fraud and capitalism in nineteenth century America / Corey Goettsch; title: Underground on the high seas: commerce, character, and complicity in the illegal slave trade / Craig B. Hollander; title: "Some rascally business": thieving slaves, unscrupulous whites, and Charleston's illicit waterfront trade / Michael D. Thompson; title: Selling sex and intimacy in the city: the changing business of prostitution in nineteenth-century Baltimore / Katie M. Hemphill; title: Economies of print in the nineteenth-century city / Paul Erickson; title: Back Number Budd: an African American pioneer in the old newspaper and information management business / Ellen Gruber Garvey.