Ready-Made Democracy explores the history of men's dress in America to consider how capitalism and democracy emerged at the center of social life during the century between the Revolution and the Civil War. The story begins with the elevation of homespun clothing to a political ideology on the eve of Independence. Homespun clothing tied the productive efforts of the household to those of the nation, becoming a most tangible expression of the citizen's attachment to the public's happiness. Coarse dress did not long remain in the wardrobe, particularly not among those political...
Ready-Made Democracy explores the history of men's dress in America to consider how capitalism and democracy emerged at the center of social li...
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 beyond...
Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, ...
The story of the development of capitalism in the nineteenth century told through the rise of the role of the merchant clerk, a job that barely existed before that period and was essential by its end.
The story of the development of capitalism in the nineteenth century told through the rise of the role of the merchant clerk, a job that barely existe...