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Cultural change and the market revolution in America, 1789-1860 / edited By Scott C. Martin.
Lippincott Library HC110.C3 C85 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Capitalism.
- Capitalism--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Capitalism--Religious aspects--History.
- Democracy--United States--History.
- Democracy.
- Capitalism--Religious aspects.
- History.
- Capitalism--Political aspects.
- Capitalism--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2005]
- Summary:
- In this exciting new work, Scott Martin brings together cutting-edge scholarship and articles from diverse sources to explore the cultural dimensions of the market revolution in America. By reflecting on the reciprocal relationship between cultural and economic change, the work deepens our understanding of American society during the turbulent early nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- Introduction : towards a cultural history of the market revolution / Scott C. Martin
- The market revolution and market values in Antebellum Black protest thought / Patrick Rael
- A cultural frontier : ethnicity and the marketplace in Charlotte, Vermont, 1845-1860 / Kevin Thornton
- Native Americans, the market revolution, and culture change : the Choctaw cattle economy, 1690-1830 / James Taylor Carson
- The "sharper" image : Yankee peddlers, Southern consumers, and the market revolution / Joseph T. Rainer
- "Well bred country people" : sociability, social networks, and the creation of a provincial middle class, 1820-1860 / Catherine E. Kelly
- "In the sweat of thy brow" : education, manual labor, and the market revolution / Jeffrey A. Mullins
- "I have brought my pig to a fine market" : animals, their exhibitors, and market culture in the early Republic / Brett Mizelle
- Temperance nostalgia, market anxiety, and the reintegration of community in T.S. Arthur's Ten nights in a bar-room / Graham Warder
- Interpreting metamora : nationalism, theater, and Jacksonian Indian policy / Scott C. Martin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742527700
- 0742527719
- OCLC:
- 55518638
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