John Lauritz Larson

The Market Revolution in America

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the lure of market capitalism and the beginnings of industrialization in the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780521883658
• ISBN-10: 0521883652
• Artikelnr.: 28025295

Autorenporträt

John Lauritz Larson is professor of history at Purdue University. For ten years he served as co-editor of the Journal of the Early Republic. He is the author of Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age (1984) and Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the New United States (2001), as well as numerous essays on early American economic development.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: what do we mean by a market revolution?
1. First fruits of independence
Interlude: panic! 1819
2. Marvelous improvements everywhere
Interlude: panic! 1837
3. Heartless markets, heartless men
4. How can we explain it?
Epilogue: panic! 2008, deja vu all over again
An essay on the sources.