Capitalism Takes Command

The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America

Bibliographic Data

ID20006506
AuthorsMichael Zakim, Gary John Kornblith
Year2011
Publication date2011-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCapitalism Takes Command (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7208/chicago/9780226977997.001.0001
OpenAlexW1490686034
Open LibraryOL36782491M
ISBN9780226977997
LanguageEN
Citations received19

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command 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 multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy, but also that the revolution was not confined to the destruction of an agrarian past. As business ceaselessly revised its own practices, a new demographic of private bankers, insurance brokers, investors in securities, and start-up manufacturers, among many others, assumed center stage, displacing older elites and forms of property. Explaining how capital became an ism and how business became a political philosophy, Capitalism Takes Command brings the economy back into American social and cultural history

Capitalism · Political science · Politics · Computer Science · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · 19th century · Economic conditions · History · Social conditions · united states

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