{"product_id":"american-capitalism-9780231185257","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\u003eThis stunning volume not only captures the most vibrant, challenging work in the history of capitalism, but also distills the central themes and defining contributions of the field.  The essays speak to all historians, not just those working in the history of capitalism.  A must-read. -- Laura F. Edwards, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Capitalism \u003c\/i\u003erepresents the coming of age of a field of historical research.  Rarely, in any field, has one volume featured the work of so many talented and accomplished historians.  Each chapter breaks fresh ground and proposes new lines of inquiry. The editors have assembled a landmark and agenda-setting book that no student of economic life in the United States can afford to ignore. -- Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003eFrom the creditor constitution to the market for slave clothing to early American mercantilist thinking, this deftly curated book samples some of the best work that the history of capitalism literature has to offer. Readers interested in new and provocative explorations of the politics, law, and culture enmeshed in American economic institutions need look no further. -- Suresh Naidu, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003eFew historical subfields are more important and timely than the critical history of capitalism. In this volume, Sven Beckert and Christine Desan have assembled cutting-edge work on topics as diverse as slavery, credit, insurance and risk, financial crises, race, gender, agriculture, and law and regulation. These essays combine chronological breadth, analytical depth, and geographic scope, linking the micro and macro, the local and the global. Essential reading. -- Thomas J. Sugrue, New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e shows us the benefits of a broad approach to the study of capitalism, and scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds will learn much from its essays. -- John N. Blanton * The Gotham Center for New York History *\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":49400324915543,"sku":"9780231185257","price":26.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231185257.jpg?v=1730470392","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-capitalism-9780231185257","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}