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

by Gary J. Kornblith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226451100
• ISBN13: 9780226451107
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"