Description
Book SynopsisAmerican Capitalism presents cutting-edge research that makes capitalism a subject of historical inquiry. Venturing new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women's rights; slavery and political economy; labor; the racialization of capitalism; and the production of knowledge, it demonstrates the breadth and scope of the new history of capitalism.
Trade ReviewSven Beckert and Christine Desan are leaders in the burgeoning history of capitalism field, and they have put together a volume of outstanding scholars whose essays, in their chronological reach and subject matter, show this new literature at its best. A very fine and promising collection. -- Steven Hahn, New York University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Making Markets1. The Capitalist Constitution, by Woody Holton
2. What
Was the Great Bull Market? Value, Valuation, and Financial History, by Julia Ott
3. The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Idea of the State, by Kim Phillips-Fein
Part II. Claiming and Contesting Capitalism4. Utopian Capitalism, by Richard White
5. The Sovereign Market and Sex Difference: Human Rights in America, by Amy Dru Stanley
6. Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum America, by Seth Rockman
7. Revulsions of Capital: Slavery and Political Economy in the Epoch of the Turner Rebellion, Virginia,
1829–1832, by Christopher Tomlins
Part III. “Knowing” Capital8. Risk, Uncertainty, and Data: Managing Risk in Twentieth-Century America, by Mary Poovey
9. Representations of Capitalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, by Peter Knight
10. Value of Life: Insurance, Slavery, and Expertise, by Michael Ralph
Part IV. Refiguring Space from the Local to the Global11. War by Other Means: Mercantilism and Free Trade in the Age of the American Revolution, by Eliga H. Gould
12. “Innovative Solutions to Modern Agriculture”: Capitalist Farming, Global Competition, and the Devolution of the U.S. Rice Industry, by Peter A. Coclanis
13. Importing the World’s Fair, by Michael Zakim
14. Plantation Dispossessions: The Global Travel of Agricultural Racial Capitalism, by Kris Manjapra
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
