Title: Freaks of Fortune
Subtitle: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America
Description: Amid the nineteenth-century's waning faith in God's providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives."--pub. desc.
Subjects: Risk, Capitalism, Risk-taking (Psychology), Economic conditions, Social conditions, History, Risk, sociological aspects, Human behavior, United states, economic conditions, United states, social conditions, Sociological aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century