Capitalism Takes Command - The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America

Zusammenfassung 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 collection of essays argues that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy.

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• Authors: Michael (EDT)/ Kornblith Zakim, Michael Kornblith Zakim, ZAKIM MICHAEL KORNBLITH GARY J
• Assisted by: Gary J. Kornblith (Editor), Kornblith Gary J. (Editor), Michael Zakim (Editor), Zakim Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2012
• EAN: 9780226451091
• ISBN: 978-0-226-45109-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas