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, ...
