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Spector Books The FACIT Model: Globalism, Localism, Identity
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Editon Synapse Conceptual Origins of Malthus's 'Essays on
Book SynopsisThis six-volume facsimile collection reprints seven publications from the 17th to early 19th century, which conceptually influenced Robert Malthus and his Population - one of the most significant works in the history of thought. All are rare and difficult-to-find texts which have never been reprinted before.Table of ContentsVolume I: The Primitive Origination of Mankind. Volume II: A Six Month’s Tour through the North of England. The Farmer’s Tour through the East of England. The Question of scarcity plainly stated and remedies considered (1800), c.100 pp. Volumes III–V: A Journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787. Volume VI: A Philosophical Survey of the Animal Creation. A Letter to the Rev. T.R. Malthus.
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Four. El ADN secreto de Amazon, Apple, Facebook y Google / The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
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John Wiley & Sons Crisis Reform In Latin America From Despair To H
Book SynopsisA contemporary discussion of the main issues of economic reform in Latin America. Beginning with 1982, the text is divided into three main eras: the early adjustment from 1982-1987; the main period of adjustment from 1987-1993; and the future.
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Oxford University Press The Poll Taxes of 1377 1379 and 1381 Part 2 LincolnshireWestmorland
Book SynopsisThe poll tax records of 1377, 1379 and 1381 form a massive resource about individuals, their occupations, and their relationships, and therefore provide an intriguing and detailed picture of late fourteenth-century England. Part 2 of this highly acclaimed edition covers the counties of Lincolnshire-Westmorland. The enormous wealth of material on Norfolk is of particular significance.Trade ReviewSeveral of the documents edited by Dr Fenwick are in very poor condition and difficult to read even with artificial aids. Therefore, the historical community is greatly obliged to her for persevering with this monumental work ... the editor is to be congratulated for her worthy contribution to the study of medieval taxation and for enhancing access to source material which might have otherwise remained unexplored. * Lincolnshire History & Archaeology: Annual Journal of Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology *
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Oxford University Press Diversity and Change in Modern India
Book SynopsisIndia''s society, economy, and polity have been transformed at a gathering pace since the early 1990s, and India''s growing role on the world stage makes it imperative to understand the roots and consequences of these changes. The 11 papers in this interdisciplinary volume review the growing body of data that help to make sense of these changes and to understand their likely significance. The volume provides systematic, macro-level studies of economic, demographic, social, and political change in India but also micro-level analyses of the detailed mechanisms ''on the ground'' of how Indian society is being re-shaped. This rare combination of micro- and macro-level analyses thus gives a rounded picture not only of national trends but also of the underlying processes of change.Each of the papers, by leading authorities in each field, showcases the fruits of new, previously unpublished scholarship across the social sciences. For example, Oliver Heath and Yogendra Yadav''s paper draws on tTable of Contents1. Incongruities, Ironies and Achievements: India's Tryst with Modernity ; 2. Growing Regional Variation: Demographic Change and its Implications ; 3. Costly Absences, Coercive Presences: Health Care in Rural North India ; 4. Economic Resurgence, Lopsided Reform and Jobless Growth ; 5. The Blind Side of Globalization: Auditing Merchant Producers in India's Export Sector ; 6. Unequal Opportunities: Class, Caste and Social Mobility ; 7. The Die is Cast(e): The Debate on Backward Caste/Class Quotas,1990 and 2006 ; 8. . The Rise of Caste Politics: Party System Change and Voter Realignment, 1962- 2004 ; 9. Understanding Popular Politics: Caste, Kinship and Factionalism among Yadavs in North India ; 10. A Left Front Election ; 11. The Challenge of Representing the Complex Reality of India
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Oxford University Press Inside the Department of Economic Affairs
Book SynopsisThe rise and fall of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) parallels the promised but eventually unfulfilled modernization agenda of the 1964-6 Wilson government. The diary kept by Samuel Brittan (in contravention of civil service rules) for the fourteen months in which he served as an ''irregular'' in the DEA provides a unique source for understanding the growth ambitions of the new government and why they quickly ran into the sands. Published here in full, with extensive notes, the diary sheds light on the Wilson government more broadly, giving insights into the ''great reappraisal'' of economic policy, the reform of government institutions and the personalities of those involved.Samuel Brittan emerged as the most important economic journalist of his generation (at the Financial Times from 1955, with brief interruptions, to the present). His diary is would be of interest for that reason alone, but it has a double value because of the special place that his book, The Treasury underTrade ReviewFrom the perspective of the serious scholar ... this is a most valuable resource ... This is a book for the academic connoisseur, who will be indebted to the immense skill of its editor, Roger Middleton, as much as to the diarist himself. * Nicholas Crafts, Financial Times *Professor Middleton is to be commended for the diligence with which he has edited the book * Nigel Lawson, Standpoint *The diary has been expertly edited by Roger Middleton, who contributes a most valuable introduction that provides the background to the making of economic policy. * Vernon Bogdanor, New Statesman *Table of ContentsTHE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS ; SAMUEL BRITTAN, THE DIARY OF AN IRREGULAR, 1964-6 ; APPENDICES
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OUP/British Academy Treasury Control and Public Expenditure in
Book SynopsisAt a time of acute interest in Scottish independence, the book charts the Treasury's response to Scottish claims from the late 19th century until the 1979 referendum. Key issues include Highland depopulation, fisheries, universities, support for farming, new towns, regional policy, North Sea Oil, budgetary responsibility and the Barnett formula.Table of ContentsEditor's introduction ; 1. The Vote and the Scottish Interest, 1885-1915 ; 2. Public expenditure and the Anglo-Scottish balance, 1916-39 ; 3. Public investment, the Scottish economy and the Block Vote, 1940-79 ; Appendix: Dramatis Personae
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OUP Oxford Documents of the First chambers of Commerce in Britain and Ireland 17671839
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Oxford University Press The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey
Book SynopsisWestminster Abbey was one of the wealthiest and most influential monastic houses in medieval England: c.1300 it held some 38,000 acres, largely in the Home Counties and West Midlands, and its revenues at the Dissolution exceeded 2,800 p.a. These assets supported a complement of 50 to 60 monks in the fourteenth century. This volume publishes 75 documents providing overviews (''states'') of the Westminster estate and its revenues,as administered by the abbot and convent separately between c.1300 and 1422. The states provided crucial information at a period of great social and economic change either side of the Black Death, assisting in decisions about farming estates directly or leasing them - and to historians today they provide rich evidence of the agricultural economy of medieval England, the systems of provisioning monasteries, and the men who shapedthem. The states are of two types. The first gives estimates of corn, stock and cash on the manors, made partway through the financial y
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Oxford University Press Weaving Histories
Book SynopsisWeaving Histories looks at the economic history of South Asia from a fresh perspective, through a detailed study of the handloom industry of South India between 1800 and 1960, drawing out its wider implications for the Indian economy. It employs an unusual array of sources, including paintings and textile samples as well as archival records, to excavate the links between cotton growing, cleaning, spinning and weaving before the nineteenth century. The rupture and re-configuration of these links produced a sea-change in the lives of ordinary weavers. Weaving Histories examines the configuration of forceslocal, regional, national and globalthat drove this transformation, and uncovers its effects on different groups of weavers.The handloom industry is used as a case study to throw light on the historical emergence of the ''informal sector'' in India, and to re-examine contemporary debates about industrialisation and economic development.Trade ReviewIn Weaving Histories, Karuna Dietrich Wielenga mobilizes an impressive range of sources to show that for at least south India many of the truisms often repeated are, if not incorrect, then surely imprecise. To understand the important revisionist work of this book, the author provides a careful analysis not just of weaving but also of raw cotton cultivation and spinning. * Giorgio Riello, European University Institute, Labour History Review *By providing the local, granular details of handloom production, Weaving Histories not only sets the stage for a nuanced understanding of a sophisticated industry within a complex socioeconomic environment but also offers greater targeted insights into its technical, social, and economic operations. * Alka Raman, Victoriaand Albert Museum, Technology and Culture, Volume 63, Number 1 *Weaving History is an exceptional scholarly work that not only engages lively with these debates but indeed also offers answers and insightful analysis. To begin with the book combines different traditions to produce an excellent outcome. It bridges economic, social, cultural, and labor history while it rarely compromises on any of these fronts. The length and breadth of the sources employed in the book is similarly truly impressive ... Weaving History is thus an outstanding contribution to existing debates and would hopefully bring new life to some of the classical questions concerning the economic/social nexus. * Nikolay Kamenov, H-Soz-Kult *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1: The Geography of Weaving: South India in the Early Nineteenth Century 2: Statistics, Looms and People: The Changing Contours of the Handloom Industry 3: From Cotton to Cloth: The Linking Threads 4: Weaving: Changing Structures 5: Caste and Work 6: Solidarity and Action 7: The State and the Weaver Conclusion Appendix: Note on the Loom Tax Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Rise of the Public Authority
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. This title recounts the history of these inscrutable government corporations.Trade Review"Gail Radford has performed a great service here, deftly situating the first comprehensive history of this sprawling but underappreciated aspect of American governance within broader narratives of modern US history. And as she explores the histories of agencies like the Federal Land Bank and the Buffalo Sewer Authority, her prose absolutely crackles - this is a real page-turner!" (Derek Hoff, Kansas State University)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"To take a trip around the mind of Robert Fogel, one of the grand old men of American economic history, is a rare treat. At every turning, you come upon some shiny pearl of information." - The Economist "Ideologically refreshing...Fogel's book is remarkable for weaving insights from history, religion, biology, nutrition, demography, economics and even a field called 'technophysio evolution' into an integrated perspective that suggests how the priorities of today's left and right might meld into a powerful new egalitarian agenda to complete the nation's unfinished business." - Matthew Miller, New York Times Book Review "A bold and fascinating argument....Fogel uses the idea of egalitarianism, which he calls our 'national creed,' to see cultural and social transformation through a political lens. If that sounds complicated - and it is - don't worry. Mr. Fogel is equal to his task." - Susan Lee, Wall Street Journal
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The University of Chicago Press Objectifying China Imagining America
Book SynopsisWith the expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. Focusing on the trade and consumption of porcelain, tea, and chinoiserie, this title shows that colonial Americans saw themselves as part of a world much larger than just Britain and Europe.Trade Review"Caroline Frank's arguments span continents and oceans as they offer a richly diverse history that is rightly global in scope, packed with illuminating details that fit together like a disciplinary puzzle-in-the-making." (Robert St. George, University of Pennsylvania)"
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The University of Chicago Press Literature Incorporated The Cultural Unconscious
Book SynopsisLong before Citizens United and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs based on groups of individuals. In this book, John O'Brien explores how this relationship played out in economics and literature, two fields that gained prominence in the same era. Examining British and American essays, poems, novels, and stories from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, O'Brien pursues the idea of incorporation as a trope discernible in a wide range of texts. Key authors include John Locke, Eliza Haywood, Harriet Martineau, and Edgar Allan Poe, and each chapter is oriented around a type of corporation reflected in their works, such as insurance companies or banks. In exploring issues such as whether sentimental interest is the same as economic interest, these works bear witness to capitalism's effect on history and human labor, desire, and memory. This period's
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The University of Chicago Press Corruption and Reform Lessons from Americas
Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of corrupt developing nations as municipal governments and robber barons alike found ways to steal from taxpayers and swindle investors. This book explores this shadowy period of United States history in search of better methods to fight corruption world-wide.
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The University of Chicago Press The Response to Industrialism 1885 1914
Book SynopsisIn this new edition, Samuel P. Hays expands the scope of his pioneering account of the ways in which Americans reacted to industrialism during its early years from 1885 to 1914. Hays now deepens his coverage of cultural transformations in a study well known for its concise treatment of political and economic movements. Hays draws on the vast knowledge of America's urban and social history that has been developed over the last thirty-eight years to make the second edition an unusually well-rounded study. He enhances the original coverage of politics, labor, and business with new accounts of the growth of cities, the rise of modern values, cultural conflicts with Native Americans and foreign nations, and changing roles for women, African-Americans, education, religion, medicine, law, and leisure. The result is a tightly woven portrait of America in transition that underscores the effects of impersonal market forces and greater personal freedom on individuals and chronicles such changes a
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The University of Chicago Press Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange A
Book SynopsisUncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentleman-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned society, showing that anthropological studies were integral to investment and speculation in foreign government debt, and, inversely, that finance played a crucial role in shaping the contours of human knowledge. Flandreau argues that finance and science were at the heart of a new brand of imperialism born during Benjamin Disraeli's first term as Britain's prime minister in the 1860s. As anthropologists advocated the study of Miskito Indians or stated their views on a Jamaican rebellion, they were in fact catering to the impulses of the stock exchangefor their own
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The University of Chicago Press Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange A Financial
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The University of Chicago Press On Economics and Society Selected Essays Phoenix
Book SynopsisThese essays, which make the science of economics intelligible to a general audience, are grouped into six areas: the relevance of economics; the Keynesian revolution; economics and the university; economics and contemporary problems; world inflation, money, trade, growth, and investment; and economics and the environment.
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The University of Chicago Press Capitalism Takes Command
Book SynopsisPresents 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 revolutionary tradition. This title includes a collection of essays.
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The University of Chicago Press Learning by Doing in Markets Firms and Countries
Book SynopsisDrawing out the underlying economics in business history, this text focuses on learning processes and the development of competitively valuable asymmetries. It shows that organizations learn that this process can be organized effectively, which can have major implications for how competition works.
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The University of Chicago Press Fighting Financial Crises Learning from the Past
Book SynopsisA history of the effort to fight financial crises, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
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The University of Chicago Press Finance in America
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The University of Chicago Press Cigarettes Inc.
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The University of Chicago Press The Public Good and The Brazilian State
Book SynopsisA history of municipal public finance in Brazil in the last half of the nineteenth century and first part of the twentieth.Trade Review"The Public Good and the Brazilian State dives deep into the interstices of municipal public goods. Stepping back from the more expected econometric analyses, this book displays the actual goods provided and the choices and trade-offs that municipalities had to make in order to meet their obligations to citizens. Slaughterhouses, vaccination centers, hospitals, schools, roads, bridges, drainage systems, water fountains, and public buildings are the stuff of this book. Hanley's richly detailed and carefully researched account will make strong contributions to the histories of municipal finance and Brazil, as well as the field of urban history more broadly." --Gail D. Triner, Rutgers University
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The University of Chicago Press A Land of Milk and Butter How Elites Created the
Book SynopsisAn economic history of the modern Danish dairy industry.
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The University of Chicago Press Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism
Book SynopsisHayek used arguments from evolution to build his view of capitalism; Beck analyzes them and finds them wantingincomplete, inaccurate, and failing to understand the science.
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The University of Chicago Press Hawaii
Book SynopsisTrade Review"How do political and economic institutions evolve? How does the past shape the present? Sumner La Croix answers those questions in an illuminating study of Hawai?i that links the original settlement by humans, endemic warfare among newly formed states, the arrival of Western colonizers, and finally statehood and problems today."--Philip T. Hoffman, author of Why Did Europe Conquer the World? "Hawai?i may have been the last major archipelago on earth to be settled by humans, but its short history is enormously rich. La Croix makes an invaluable contribution to the social science history of Hawai?i by laying out clearly and persuasively how political and economic forces interacted throughout all of Hawaiian history, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This is an important book that will find a key place in the history of Hawai?i and the political economy of colonization and statehood."--John Joseph Wallis, coauthor of Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History "A superb analysis of the economic and political history of Hawai?i from its inception over eight hundred years to the present. Using a unified framework of political orders, La Croix moves seamlessly through the various political transitions of local chiefs to Unified Kingdom, U.S. colony, and statehood, with their related economic implications. He documents how the structures put in place eight hundred years ago resonate in the present century. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in economic and political history and those interested in contemporary public policy."--Ann M. Carlos, coauthor of Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
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The University of Chicago Press Deconstructing the Monolith The Microeconomics
Book SynopsisThe National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was enacted by Congress in June of 1933 to assist the nation's recovery during the Great Depression. Its passage ushered in a unique experiment in US economic history: under the NIRA, the federal government explicitly supported, and in some cases enforced, alliances within industries. Antitrust laws were suspended, and companies were required to agree upon industry-level codes of fair competition that regulated wages and hours and could implement anti-competitive provisions such as those fixing prices, establishing production quotas, and imposing restrictions on new productive capacity. The NIRA is generally viewed as a monolithic program, its dramatic and sweeping effects best measurable through a macroeconomic lens. In this pioneering book, however, Jason E. Taylor examines the act instead using microeconomic tools, probing the uneven implementation of the act's codes and the radical heterogeneity of its impact across industries and time
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The University of Chicago Press Trading Spaces
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The University of Chicago Press Out of Stock
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The University of Chicago Press A History of the Modern Fact Problems of
Book SynopsisShowing the epistemological conditions that have made modern, social and economic knowledge possible, this text explores questions such as, "how did fact become modernity's most favoured unit of knowledge?".Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: The Modern Fact, the Problem of Induction, and Questions of Method 2: Accommodating Merchants: Double-Entry Bookkeeping, Mercantile Expertise, and the Effect of Accuracy 3: The Political Anatomy of the Economy: English Science and Irish Land 4: Experimental Moral Philosophy and the Problems of Liberal Governmentality 5: From Conjectural History to Political Economy 6: Reconfiguring Facts and Theory: Vestiges of Providentialism in the New Science of Wealth 7: Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: The Problem of Induction in the 1830s Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press A History of the Modern Fact
Book SynopsisShowing the epistemological conditions that have made modern, social and economic knowledge possible, this text explores questions such as, how did fact become modernity's most favoured unit of knowledge?.
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The University of Chicago Press Cul de Sac
Book SynopsisIn the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them weak and crisis prone. Focusing on correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, Cul de Sac proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was a particularly modern expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises in the French empire, vainly attempted to rein in the inTrade Review"The strength of Cheney's book lies in its in-depth insight into the affairs of the Saint-Domingue plantation aristocracy and their associates. The reader gets tantalizing glimpses of the lives and voices of the enslaved Africans whose labor underpinned the whole fragile edifice."--American Historical Review "This deeply researched and richly detailed study of one plantation reconstructs and illuminates the complex world of colonial Saint-Domingue. Through the story of the Cul de Sac plain, Cheney offers a layered and insightful analysis of the relationship between slavery, trade, and policy in the eighteenth-century French Atlantic."--Laurent Dubois, author of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution "Providing great historical detail, Cheney discusses how international conflicts; the struggles among metropolitan elites, Creole elites, and the French crown; and the ethical tensions between humaneness and business interests in the treatment of slaves contributed to the fragility and ultimate unsustainability of plantation capitalism. . . the text is well-written and organized, and the details help illustrate and reflect the complex layers of plantation capitalism in colonial France."--Choice "Cul de Sac takes us deep within the global center of one of the most brutal forms of capitalism in history. Masterfully reconstructing plantation life from newly discovered sources, Cheney exposes the fragility of a family enterprise riven by racial and ideological tensions as it confronted war and revolution. This is a must-read for students of Caribbean, Atlantic, and French history."--Michael Kwass, author of Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground "Until now, we had very few detailed accounts of plantations and how they operated. This book takes an especially rich set of records on a large absentee-owned plantation in Cul de Sac, a major sugar-planting region near Port-au-Prince, and creates a compelling account of slavery, capitalism, and family in this interesting society. Entertaining as well as informative, Cul de Sac will make a signal contribution to the scholarship of slavery and capitalism in the Atlantic World."--Trevor Burnard, author of Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 "One of the most important books on colonial and revolutionary Haiti (Saint-Domingue) of the past several decades. . . . Subtle and creative . . . . This book not only fills a gap in the literature of Haitian history but also aims to revise our understanding of early modern North Atlantic capitalism by demonstrating its reliance on unstable but persistent patrimonial alliances. In that objective, Cul de Sac succeeds magnificently, giving us a more revealing and finely drawn portrait of the economic and social relationships in which the Caribbean sugar plantation was embedded than we have previously known. . . . No one can come away from this book with anything less than a sense of gratitude and awe for the great achievement that it represents." --Journal of Modern History "Cul de Sac is written with extraordinary clarity and dexterity. The movements between micro-analysis and wider political economic and social forces, between culture and capitalism and between metropole and colony are ambitious and exemplary. It is elegantly constructed, beautifully written, and persuasively argued. It will no doubt serve as a model for further study. . . Cheney's portrait, which draws on an extraordinarily wide range of contextual scholarship, is finely calibrated, ambitiously capacious and thoroughly illuminating. His analysis links clearly the internal operations of the Ferronnays sugar estate--over time--to the global structuring contexts of French imperial policy, colonial empire, fluctuating world markets, the international division of labour and, ultimately, the dramatic upheavals of the Haitian Revolution. . .a meticulously researched and detailed account."--French History
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The University of Chicago Press Framing Finance The Boundaries of Markets and
Book SynopsisAs the banking crisis and its effects on the world economy have made plain, the stock market is of importance to our livelihoods. This book looks at the history of the market to figure out how we arrived at a point where investing is commonplace, as market fluctuations threaten our plans to send our children to college or retire comfortably.Trade Review"Framing Finance looks at the history of finance from a completely new perspective, combining sociology, history, economics, and literary and cultural studies. Drawing on his original historical data, Preda proposes several innovative theoretical ideas and concepts that may well become household notions in writings on finance." - Karen Knorr Cetina, University of Chicago"
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The University of Chicago Press Framing Finance The Boundaries of Markets and
Book SynopsisAs the banking crisis and its effects on the world economy have made plain, the stock market is of importance to our livelihoods. This book looks at the history of the market to figure out how we arrived at a point where investing is commonplace, as market fluctuations threaten our plans to send our children to college or retire comfortably.Trade Review"Framing Finance looks at the history of finance from a completely new perspective, combining sociology, history, economics, and literary and cultural studies. Drawing on his original historical data, Preda proposes several innovative theoretical ideas and concepts that may well become household notions in writings on finance." - Karen Knorr Cetina, University of Chicago"
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The University of Chicago Press Milton Friedman and Economic Debate in the United
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Magisterial. . . For anyone wanting to understand the ideas that Friedman generated over his research career, this book is, and will remain for some time, the essential guide.” * Financial World *"Edward Nelson knows more about Milton Friedman’s economics than anyone else alive. In two weighty volumes, he begins to share that knowledge with us. . . . Readers of the two chronological parts—even those who have already studied carefully Friedman’s major works—will learn much more from Nelson about the incredible breadth and diversity of Friedman’s academic research." -- Peter N. Ireland * Business Economics *"Volume 1 of a two-volume set presents a composite picture of Milton Friedman’s theoretical positions and policy conclusions, how they informed his interactions with economists and policy makers, and how they shaped his commentary on economic policy in the United States, focusing on Friedman’s development as a monetarist from 1932 to 1960." * Journal of Economic Literature *"When I read the two volume Milton Friedman and Economic Debate in the United States: 1932-1972 by Edward Nelson... I knew it would be the best book of 2021 and six months later I stand by that judgement. These books are for those with a decent understanding of economics, but armed with knowledge of the discipline." * The Interim *“A fascinating book... Nelson presents a meticulously researched, exquisitely detailed exposition of Friedman’s work, ranging from his contributions to economic research to his efforts to improve public policy. This book is a definitive resource for appreciating Milton Friedman’s influence in economics and public policy.” -- Athanasios Orphanides, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“Nelson’s entertaining and thought-provoking book is a treasure trove of information about Milton Friedman and the economic debates he engaged in. It is an essential reference for those interested in Friedman, his ideas, and his times. Even readers familiar with Friedman’s work will be sure to find new facts in Nelson’s book, such as the fascinating account of the ups and downs of Friedman’s career, which led Friedman to win the Clark Medal and the Nobel Prize for completely separate bodies of work.” -- Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley“Edward Nelson presents a new intellectual history of Friedman’s massive oeuvre, tracing Friedman’s work in detail and relating it to the issues and literature of the time. The work is highly original, and the scholarship superlative. This will be the definitive book on Milton Friedman for a long time to come.” -- Michael Bordo, Rutgers University"While much has been written on Friedman’s career, no previous biographer has Nelson’s deep and sophisticated understanding of monetary economics. This makes his new book especially useful for those with a serious interest in policy issues, especially macro policy. While Friedman had policy views on a wide variety of issues, including the military draft and education voucher programs, Nelson focuses his attention on the areas where Friedman’s influence was greatest–the field of macroeconomics." * Economic History *Table of ContentsIntroduction Conventions Used in this Book Part 1: Friedman’s Pre-monetarist Period, 1932 to 1950 Chapter 1: 1942 and 1995 3 I. 1942 II. 1995 III. The Challenge Chapter 2: Starting Out, 1932 to 1939 I. Events and Activities, 1932–39 II. Issues, 1933–39The New Deal: Monetary Changes The New Deal: The Supply SideIII. Personalities, 1932–39 Henry Simons Simon Kuznets Chapter 3: Economic Policy on the Home Front, 1940 to 1943 I. Events and Activities, 1940–43 II. Issues, 1940–43 Paying for World War II The Spendings TaxIII. Personalities, 1940–43 Alvin Hansen Clark Warburton Chapter 4: Money Changes Everything, 1944 to 1950 I. Events and Activities, 1944–50 II. Issues, 1944–50 The Emerging Monetarist The Crusade against Cheap Money III. Personalities, 1944–50 Paul Samuelson Oskar Lange Part 2: Friedman’s Framework Chapter 5: Friedman’s Aggregate-Demand Framework: Consumption and Investment Chapter 6: Friedman’s Aggregate-Demand Framework: Money and Securities Chapter 7: Friedman’s Aggregate-Supply Framework Chapter 8: Friedman’s Framework: Policy Rules Chapter 9: Friedman’s Framework: Market Economics and Research Methodology Part 3: Friedman’s Monetarist Years, 1951 to 1972 Chapter 10: The Accord and the New Regime, 1951 to 1960 I. Events and Activities, 1951–60 II. Issues, 1951–60 The Incomplete Revival of Monetary Policy Cost-Push Debates III. Personalities, 1951–60 Senators Paul Douglas and Prescott Bush William McChesney Martin Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Chicago Business and Industry From Fur Trade to
Book SynopsisFrom its humble beginnings as a fur-trading outpost, Chicago has become one of the foremost centers of world finance and trade. Beginning with an overview of the city's commercial development, this book considers how key industries shaped - and were shaped by - both the local and global economies.Trade Review"In our ideal reference world, there would be an encyclopedia like this one for every great American city. The Encyclopedia of Chicago is a superb ready-reference work on Chicago, a good starting point for students doing research, and just a wonderful book to browse through." (Booklist) "The Encyclopedia of Chicago is no mere collection of fun facts. It is a work of stunning scholarly achievement.... This is a work of depth and gravity, written largely by scholars but aimed at the intelligent regular Joe, an approach that becomes self-evident in the first ten pages." (Tom McNamee, Chicago Sun-Times)"
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The University of Chicago Press World of Fairs The CenturyofProgress Expositions
Book SynopsisShows how the interwar exhibitions heralded the arrival of modern America - a new empire of abundance built on old foundations of inequality. Rydell demonstrates how the fairs reached their height of popularity following the crash of 1929 by offering a vision of recovery from the Depression.
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The University of Chicago Press Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] ambitious work. The result of years of reflection... it presents a compelling vision of the way a specifically French variety of capitalism developed in the 18th century, and how resulting forms of social experience in turn laid the groundwork for a new, revolutionary politics." * London Review of Books *"In this ambitious book, Sewell argues that the development of capitalism in eighteenth-century France led to the rise of civic equality and its triumph in the Revolution. . . .[The book's] strength derives from its ability to synthesize secondary literature from intellectual, political, social, and economic history seamlessly. Sewell combines this literature with published primary sources to produce a rich description of several realms of French society; intellectual and social biographies of four philosophes; and a political, institutional, and economic narrative of the coming of the French Revolution. He leaves no doubt that commercial relations were expanding through more of society in the eighteenth century and that the belief in civic equality had become central to political thought by the time of the Revolution." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“This superb book will be recognized immediately as a classic in the rich historiography of the French Revolution. It is the first major rethinking of the relationship of the old regime to the Revolution since Furet’s Interpreting the French Revolution was published four decades ago. Sewell’s book is elegantly and lucidly written, persuasively argued, and of fundamental importance for scholars in the broad spectrum of humanistic and social scientific disciplines who seek to understand the major transformation that gave birth to modern political culture.” * Keith Michael Baker, Stanford University *“Sewell offers a detailed history of how our world, through the proliferation of physical objects, came to be experienced as less concrete and more abstract. Ranging from promenades to taxation by way of fashion, philosophes, and political economy, this magisterial synthesis shows that eighteenth-century capitalism both profoundly challenged existing regimes of privilege and, eventually, created entire new ones.” * Rebecca L. Spang, Indiana University *“In his bold rethinking of Marx, Sewell restores capitalism to the debate on the origins of the French Revolution. With his signature clarity, he offers us a novel interpretive framework for understanding how subversive notions of equality upended a traditional society to ignite the Revolution. This book is essential reading for all French historians, social theorists, and students of capitalism.” * Michael Kwass, Johns Hopkins University *"It is impossible to do justice with a short summary to the subtlety, sophistication, and persuasiveness of Sewell’s book, which may well be his magnum opus. It contains pointed excursuses on major theorists, from Tocqueville to Habermas; remarkable syntheses of recent work on the eighteenth-century French economy; lively biographies of four Enlightenment figures (Voltaire, Diderot, Morellet, and Rousseau), examined from the point of view of their personal finances; and chapters on French tax policy and economic reforms. . . This is an ambitious book, proposing no less than a new economic explanation for the French Revolution." * The Journal of Modern History *"Theoretically stimulating and cogently written. . . William H. Sewell Jr. offers an unapologetic Marxist analysis of how France came to reject hierarchy and privilege to embrace civic equality and human rights." * International Review of Social History *"Sewell’s book offers a powerful explanation for why a society so essentially organized around status hierarchy and birth-based privilege could imagine that it was both possible and desirable to reconstitute itself upon the twin principles of legal uniformity and civic equality." * History: Reviews of New Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The French Revolution and the Shock of Civic Equality Chapter 1: Old Regime State and Society Chapter 2: The Eighteenth-Century Economy: Commerce and CapitalismPart 1: The Emergence of an Urban Public Chapter 3: The Commercial Public Sphere Chapter 4: The Empire of Fashion Chapter 5: The Parisian PromenadePart 2: The Philosophes and the Career Open to Talent Chapter 6: The Philosophe Career and the Impossible Example of Voltaire Chapter 7: Denis Diderot: Living by the Pen Chapter 8: The Abbé Morellet: Between Publishing and Patronage Chapter 9: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Self-Deceived ClientagePart 3: Royal Administration and the Promise of Political Economy Chapter 10: Tocqueville’s Challenge: Royal Administration and the Rise of Civic Equality Chapter 11: Warfare, Taxes, and Administrative Centralization: The Double Bind of Royal Finance Chapter 12: Political Economy: A Solution to the Double Bind? Chapter 13: Navigating the Double Bind: Efforts at Reform Conclusion: The Revolution and the Advent of Civic Equality Epilogue: Civic Equality and the Continuing History of Capitalism Acknowledgments References Index
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in
Book SynopsisThere is little doubt that the French Revolution of 1789 changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equalitya distinctive signature of that revolutionfind such fertile ground in France? How might changing economic and social realities have affected political opinions? William H. Sewell Jr. argues that the flourishing of commercial capitalism in eighteenth-century France introduced a new independence, flexibility, and anonymity to French social life. By entering the interstices of this otherwise rigidly hierarchical society, expanded commodity exchange colored everyday experience in ways that made civic equality thinkable, possible, even desirable, when the crisis of the French Revolution arrived. Sewell ties together masterful analyses of a multitude of interrelated topics: the rise of commerce, the emergence of urban publics, the careers of the philosophes, commercial publishing, patronage, political economy, trade, and state finance. Capitalism and the EmerTrade Review"[An] ambitious work. The result of years of reflection... it presents a compelling vision of the way a specifically French variety of capitalism developed in the 18th century, and how resulting forms of social experience in turn laid the groundwork for a new, revolutionary politics." * London Review of Books *"In this ambitious book, Sewell argues that the development of capitalism in eighteenth-century France led to the rise of civic equality and its triumph in the Revolution. . . .[The book's] strength derives from its ability to synthesize secondary literature from intellectual, political, social, and economic history seamlessly. Sewell combines this literature with published primary sources to produce a rich description of several realms of French society; intellectual and social biographies of four philosophes; and a political, institutional, and economic narrative of the coming of the French Revolution. He leaves no doubt that commercial relations were expanding through more of society in the eighteenth century and that the belief in civic equality had become central to political thought by the time of the Revolution." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“This superb book will be recognized immediately as a classic in the rich historiography of the French Revolution. It is the first major rethinking of the relationship of the old regime to the Revolution since Furet’s Interpreting the French Revolution was published four decades ago. Sewell’s book is elegantly and lucidly written, persuasively argued, and of fundamental importance for scholars in the broad spectrum of humanistic and social scientific disciplines who seek to understand the major transformation that gave birth to modern political culture.” * Keith Michael Baker, Stanford University *“Sewell offers a detailed history of how our world, through the proliferation of physical objects, came to be experienced as less concrete and more abstract. Ranging from promenades to taxation by way of fashion, philosophes, and political economy, this magisterial synthesis shows that eighteenth-century capitalism both profoundly challenged existing regimes of privilege and, eventually, created entire new ones.” * Rebecca L. Spang, Indiana University *“In his bold rethinking of Marx, Sewell restores capitalism to the debate on the origins of the French Revolution. With his signature clarity, he offers us a novel interpretive framework for understanding how subversive notions of equality upended a traditional society to ignite the Revolution. This book is essential reading for all French historians, social theorists, and students of capitalism.” * Michael Kwass, Johns Hopkins University *"It is impossible to do justice with a short summary to the subtlety, sophistication, and persuasiveness of Sewell’s book, which may well be his magnum opus. It contains pointed excursuses on major theorists, from Tocqueville to Habermas; remarkable syntheses of recent work on the eighteenth-century French economy; lively biographies of four Enlightenment figures (Voltaire, Diderot, Morellet, and Rousseau), examined from the point of view of their personal finances; and chapters on French tax policy and economic reforms. . . This is an ambitious book, proposing no less than a new economic explanation for the French Revolution." * The Journal of Modern History *"Theoretically stimulating and cogently written. . . William H. Sewell Jr. offers an unapologetic Marxist analysis of how France came to reject hierarchy and privilege to embrace civic equality and human rights." * International Review of Social History *"Sewell’s book offers a powerful explanation for why a society so essentially organized around status hierarchy and birth-based privilege could imagine that it was both possible and desirable to reconstitute itself upon the twin principles of legal uniformity and civic equality." * History: Reviews of New Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The French Revolution and the Shock of Civic Equality Chapter 1: Old Regime State and Society Chapter 2: The Eighteenth-Century Economy: Commerce and CapitalismPart 1: The Emergence of an Urban Public Chapter 3: The Commercial Public Sphere Chapter 4: The Empire of Fashion Chapter 5: The Parisian PromenadePart 2: The Philosophes and the Career Open to Talent Chapter 6: The Philosophe Career and the Impossible Example of Voltaire Chapter 7: Denis Diderot: Living by the Pen Chapter 8: The Abbé Morellet: Between Publishing and Patronage Chapter 9: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Self-Deceived ClientagePart 3: Royal Administration and the Promise of Political Economy Chapter 10: Tocqueville’s Challenge: Royal Administration and the Rise of Civic Equality Chapter 11: Warfare, Taxes, and Administrative Centralization: The Double Bind of Royal Finance Chapter 12: Political Economy: A Solution to the Double Bind? Chapter 13: Navigating the Double Bind: Efforts at Reform Conclusion: The Revolution and the Advent of Civic Equality Epilogue: Civic Equality and the Continuing History of Capitalism Acknowledgments References Index
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press England and the Crusades 10951588
Book SynopsisChristopher Tyerman offers this book-length study of the role of England in the Crusades which focuses on the courtroom and council chamber rather than the battlefield. Tyerman seeks to demonstrate the impact of the Crusades on the political and economic functions of English society.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Liberalisms Last Man
Book SynopsisA modern reframing of Friedrich Hayek's most famous work for the 21st century. Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom was both an intellectual milestone and a source of political division, spurring fiery debates around capitalism and its discontents. In the ensuing discord, Hayek's true message was lost: liberalism is a thing to be protected above all else, and its alternatives are perilous. In Liberalism's Last Man, Vikash Yadav revives the core of Hayek's famed work to map today's primary political anxiety: the tenuous state of liberal meritocratic capitalismparticularly in North America, Europe, and Asiain the face of strengthening political-capitalist powers like China, Vietnam, and Singapore. As open societies struggle to match the economic productivity of authoritarian-capitalist economies, the promises of a meritocracy fade; Yadav channels Hayek to articulate how liberalism's moral backbone is its greatest defense against repressive social structures.Trade Review"Yadav debuts with a vigorous reappraisal of 20th-century economist Friedrich Hayek in light of todayʼs increasing authoritarian encroachment on liberal, meritocratic, free-market societies. . . . Seamlessly intertwining political philosophy, intellectual history, and textual criticism, this is an expansive and robust defense of capitalist liberalism." * Publisher's Weekly *"Liberalism’s Last Man performs an exceptional service in recasting The Road to Serfdom in a form that modern readers may find easier to appreciate than the original work. For too long Hayek has been treated—by admirers and critics alike—as a slogan or a caricature rather than a serious thinker. It’s time for a comeback." * The Wall Street Journal *"In Liberalism’s Last Man, Vikash Yadav argues that Hayek has been mischaracterized as an extreme libertarian and market fundamentalist. Yadav points out [Hayek's] support for several progressive positions, including the state’s provision of a minimum income, the promotion of social mobility, the taxation and regulation of pollution, and antitrust laws to restrain monopolies." * The New York Review of Books *"Hayek is a complex figure. A careful analysis of his work is necessarily complex. Yadav provides clarity and understanding around this oft-misunderstood intellectual who is too important to misconstrue or misrepresent." * Law & Liberty *"Does Hayek’s critique of socialism and defense of liberalism in his 1944 book The Road to Serfdom have any relevance for the very different challenges the international order faces today? Yadav’s ambitious goal is to answer that question via a close reading of Hayek’s classic text. The result is a penetrating, insightful, sometimes provocative and always stimulating performance." -- Bruce Caldwell | coauthor of "Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950" | Duke University“Well-written, well-researched, and engrossing, the great accomplishment of Liberalism's Last Man is its engagement with modern political theory through the lens of Hayek. It’s a highly original work—and refreshing in that it takes Hayek’s critics seriously while also refraining from shortchanging Hayek for his supposed intellectual sins.” -- Peter Boettke | author of "F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy"Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One The Abandoned Road Chapter Two The Great Utopia Chapter Three Individualism and Collectivism Chapter Four The “Inevitability” of Planning Chapter Five Planning and Democracy Chapter Six Planning and the Rule of Law Chapter Seven Economic Control and Totalitarianism Chapter Eight Who, Whom? Chapter Nine Security and Freedom Chapter Ten Why the Worst Get on Top Chapter Eleven The End of Truth Chapter Twelve The Socialist Roots of Nazism Chapter Thirteen The Totalitarians in Our Midst Chapter Fourteen Material Conditions and Ideal Ends Chapter Fifteen The Prospects of International Order Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Banking on Slavery
Book SynopsisA sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery. It's now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found in the structures of chattel slavery. It's also understood that almost every other institution and aspect of life then was at least entangled withand often profited fromslavery's perpetuation. Yet as Sharon Ann Murphy shows in her powerful and unprecedented book, the centrality of enslaved labor to banking in the antebellum United States is far greater than previously thought. Banking on Slavery sheds light on precisely how the financial relationships between banks and slaveholders worked across the nineteenth-century South. Murphy argues that the rapid spread of slavery in the South during the 1820s and '30s depended significantly upon southern banks' willingness to financialize enslaved lives, with the use of enslaved individuals as loan collateral proving cTrade Review"Murphy’s meticulously researched and clearly written study examines the role of banks in what she terms the concomitant 'financialization' of human property and the southwestern expansion of plantation economies in the mid-19th-century South. . . . The lives of enslaved persons caught in the web of the capitalist marketplace haunt the pages of Murphy's excellent work." * Choice *“A tremendous accomplishment. We cannot fully understand the history of banking in the United States without reckoning with Murphy’s important findings. Banking on Slavery sets the stage for new understandings of the history of capitalism and its relation to slavery.” * Claire Priest, author of Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America *"In a pathbreaking account of the way Americans financed slavery, Murphy connects the vast sweep of that tragedy to the banking that made it possible. Detail by dollar detail, she exposes the structures that transmuted enslaved people into assets and collateral, building white wealth all the while. A powerful--and chilling--book." -- Christine Desan, author of Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism"More surprising has been the lack of historical analysis of the banking firms and financial practices that underwrote the expansion of slavery in the antebellum United States. In her groundbreaking new book, Banking on Slavery, historian Sharon Ann Murphy corrects this glaring omission." * Sean Vanatta, Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Banking in the Nation’s Largest Slave Market Part I: Financing Southwestern Expansion through the 1810s 1 The Limits of Early Bank Financing of Slavery 2 Adapting Slave Financing to the Needs of the Frontier South during the Nation’s First Boom and Bust Part II: Financing an Empire of Slavery in the 1820s and 1830s 3 Old South Banks and Frontier Finance 4 Pushing Financial Boundaries with Traditional Banks 5 Reimagining Banking for a Slave Economy Part III: The Collateral Damage of the Panics of 1837 and 1839 6 Foreclosing (or Not) on Delinquent Slaveholders 7 Escaping Debt: Bankruptcy, Fraud, and Going to Texas 8 When Banks Fail 9 From Commercial Banking to Private Finance Epilogue: Banks, Debt, Emancipation, Reparations, and Memory Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Index
£84.00
The University of Chicago Press In Hock
Book SynopsisProviding the definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation's founding through the Great Depression, this title demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism.Trade Review"A remarkable and remarkably original book. With her keen ear for the stories and anecdotes that make the milleus of the working poor come alive, Wendy A. Woloson captures the vivid and untold history of pawnbroking from the late eighteenth century through the Great Depression, and writes with panache on the many changes this period heralded." (Ann Fabian, Rutgers University)"
£24.00
