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American Capitalism
New Histories
Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, eds
Columbia University Press
The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising
shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial
working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning
multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New
York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism
for two centuries and more. But an understanding of the history of
American capitalism is as elusive as it is urgent. What does it mean to
make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential
across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a
range of geographic and chronological settings? And how does a focus on
capitalism change our understanding of American history?
American Capitalism presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from
prominent scholars. These broad-minded and rigorous essays venture new
angles on finance, debt, and credit; women’s rights; slavery and
political economy; the racialization of capitalism; labor beyond
industrial wage workers; and the production of knowledge, including the
idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest
emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is
made by political authority, how it is claimed and contested by
participants, how it spreads across the globe, and how it can be
reconceptualized without being universalized. A major statement for a
wide-open field, this book demonstrates the breadth and scope of the
work that the history of capitalism can provoke.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University
and cofounder of the Program on the Study of Capitalism. He is the
author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2014).
Christine Desan is Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard University
and cofounder of the Program on the Study of Capitalism. She is the
author of Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism (2014).
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/american-capitalism/9780231185240
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