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Zusatztext American Capitalism 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. Informationen zum Autor Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History and cofounder of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. He is the author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2014). Christine Desan is Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law and cofounder of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. She is the author of Making Money: Coin! Currency! and the Coming of Capitalism (2014). Klappentext American 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. Zusammenfassung American 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Making Markets 1. 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 Capitalism 4. 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" Capital 8. 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 Global 11. 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 ...
