Rum and Axes - The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 17951850

Klappentext Janet Siskind goes back to the beginnings of industrial capitalism in the United States to better understand the formation of the country's capitalist culture. In Rum and Axes, she traces how "upper-class work," the everyday tasks of organizing and maintaining trade or a system of production, shaped the family's experience and New England's culture. The result is an intimate story of social class and capitalism. Zusammenfassung Janet Siskind goes back to the beginnings of industrial capitalism in the United States to better understand the formation of the country's capitalist culture. She studies the papers and letters of three generations of the Watkinson family. The...

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• Authors: Janet Siskind, SISKIND JANET
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 22
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2004
• EAN: 9780801489204
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8920-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Anthropology of Contemporary I; The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues; Anthropology of Contemporary I
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories