{"product_id":"american-capitalism-9780231185240","title":"American Capitalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSven 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Making Markets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Capitalist Constitution, by Woody Holton\u003cbr\u003e2. What \u003ci\u003eWas\u003c\/i\u003e the Great Bull Market? Value, Valuation, and Financial History, by Julia Ott\u003cbr\u003e3. The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Idea of the State, by Kim Phillips-Fein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Claiming and Contesting Capitalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Utopian Capitalism, by Richard White\u003cbr\u003e5. The Sovereign Market and Sex Difference: Human Rights in America, by Amy Dru Stanley\u003cbr\u003e6. Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum America, by Seth Rockman\u003cbr\u003e7. Revulsions of Capital: Slavery and Political Economy in the Epoch of the Turner Rebellion, Virginia,\u003cbr\u003e1829–1832, by Christopher Tomlins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. “Knowing” Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Risk, Uncertainty, and Data: Managing Risk in Twentieth-Century America, by Mary Poovey\u003cbr\u003e9. Representations of Capitalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, by Peter Knight\u003cbr\u003e10. Value of Life: Insurance, Slavery, and Expertise, by Michael Ralph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Refiguring Space from the Local to the Global\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. War by Other Means: Mercantilism and Free Trade in the Age of the American Revolution, by Eliga H. Gould\u003cbr\u003e12. “Innovative Solutions to Modern Agriculture”: Capitalist Farming, Global Competition, and the Devolution of the U.S. Rice Industry, by Peter A. Coclanis\u003cbr\u003e13. Importing the World’s Fair, by Michael Zakim\u003cbr\u003e14. Plantation Dispossessions: The Global Travel of Agricultural Racial Capitalism, by Kris Manjapra\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400324751703,"sku":"9780231185240","price":91.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231185240.jpg?v=1730470392","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-capitalism-9780231185240","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}