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The soul's economy : market society and selfhood in American thought, 1820-1920 / Jeffrey Sklansky.
Lippincott Library HD8072 .S6163 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sklansky, Jeffrey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial relations--United States--History--19th century.
- Industrial relations.
- Industrial relations--United States--History--20th century.
- Social classes.
- History.
- Industrialization.
- Capitalism.
- United States.
- United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
- Economic conditions.
- United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918.
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.
- Capitalism--United States--History--19th century.
- Capitalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Industrialization--United States--History--19th century.
- Social classes--United States--History--19th century.
- Social classes--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Sklansky traces a shift in American social thought as the gradual demise of the household economy rendered proprietary independence an increasingly embattled ideal. Amid the widening class divide, nineteenth-century social theorists devised a new science of American society that reconceived freedom in terms of psychic self-expression instead of economic self-interest, and they redefined democracy in terms of cultural kinship rather than social compact.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807827258
- 0807853984
- OCLC:
- 49711756
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