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The market revolution : Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 Charles Sellers
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sellers, Charles, 1923-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
- United States.
- Capitalism--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Capitalism.
- Representative government and representation--United States--History--19th century.
- Representative government and representation.
- Democracy--History--19th century.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- 502 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Summary:
- The central theme of this study of American life in the early 19th century is the establishment of capitalism. The author argues that, following the Industrial Revolution, two distinct societies were created in the USA: rich and poor, proprietors and labourers, city dwellers and farmers.
- Contents:
- Land and market
- Ambiguous republicanism
- "Let us conquer space"
- The crisis of 1819
- Hard times, hard feelings, hard money
- "A general mass of disaffection"
- God and mammon
- Ethos vs. eros
- Politicians "reapply principles"
- Millennial democracy
- Ambiguous democracy
- The bourgeois republic
- The great contradiction.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-486) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sellers, Charles Grier. Market revolution.
- ISBN:
- 0195038894
- 9780195038897
- 0195089200
- 9780195089202
- OCLC:
- 22766741
- Publisher Number:
- BIST926657
- ZBWT00428659
- pot33049154
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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