Wages of independence : capitalism in the early American republic / edited by Paul A. Gilje.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gilje, Paul A., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commerce.

History.

Industrialization.

Transportation.

Finance.

Capitalism.

United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

United States.

Economic conditions.

United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Social conditions.

United States--History--1815-1861.

Capitalism--United States--History--19th century.

Finance--United States--History--19th century.

Transportation--United States--History--19th century.

Industrialization--United States--History--19th century.

United States--Commerce--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

x, 166 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : Madison House, 1997.

Summary:

In this collection of essays, eight social and economic historians consider the rise of capitalism in the early American republic and demonstrate the centrality of common men and women as artisans, laborers, planters, and farmers in the dramatic transitions of the period.

Contents:

The rise of capitalism in the early republic / Paul A. Gilje

The woman who wasn't there : women's market labor and the transition to capitalism in the United States / Jeanne Boydston

Markets without a market revolution : Southern planters and capitalism / Douglas R. Egerton

Rural America and the transition to capitalism / Christopher Clark

Capitalism, industrialization, and the factory in post-revolutionary America / Jonathan Prude

Artisans and capitalist development / Richard Stott

Capitalizing hope : economic thought and the early national economy / Cathy D. Matson

The enemy is us : democratic capitalism in the early republic / Gordon S. Wood.

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic."--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0945612532

0945612524

OCLC:

36284064