Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America
By Unknown Author.
Description
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 Command presents 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 beyo...
ISBN(s)
0226451097, 9780226451091
