American Capitalism [electronic resource] : New Histories / Sven Beckert, Christine Desan.

Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Series:

Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource

Language:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
text file PDF

Contents:

Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I. MAKING MARKETS
1. The Capitalist Constitution / Holton, Woody
2. What Was the Great Bull Market? Value, Valuation, and Financial History / Ott, Julia
3. The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Idea of the State / Phillips-Fein, Kim
PART II. CLAIMING AND CONTESTING CAPITALISM
4. Utopian Capitalism / White, Richard
5. The Sovereign Market and Sex Difference: Human Rights in America / Stanley, Amy Dru
6. Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum America / Rockman, Seth
7. Revulsions of Capital: Slavery and Political Economy in the Epoch of the Turner Rebellion, Virginia, 1829-1832 / Tomlins, Christopher
PART III. "KNOWING" CAPITAL
8. Risk, Uncertainty, and Data: Managing Risk in Twentieth- Century America / Poovey, Mary
9. Repre sentations of Capitalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Knight, Peter
10. Value of Life: Insurance, Slavery, and Expertise / Ralph, Michael
PART IV. REFIGURING SPACE FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL
11. War by Other Means: Mercantilism and Free Trade in the Age of the American Revolution / Gould, Eliga H.
12. "Innovative Solutions to Modern Agriculture": Capitalist Farming, Global Competition, and the Devolution of the U.S. Rice Industry / Coclanis, Peter A.
13. Importing the Crystal Palace / Zakim, Michael
14. Plantation Dispossessions: The Global Travel of Agricultural Racial Capitalism / Manjapra, Kris
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Aug 2018)

Contributor:

Beckert, Sven, editor.
Desan, Christine, editor.
De Gruyter.

Contained In:

De Gruyter University Press Library.

ISBN:

9780231546065

Publisher Number:

10.7312/beck18524 doi

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

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