Capitalism by Gaslight : Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America /

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While elite merchants, financiers, shopkeepers, and customers were the most visible producers, consumers, and distributors of goods and capital in the nineteenth century, they were certainly not alone in shaping the economy. Lurking in the shadows of capitalism's past are those who made markets...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Erickson, Paul (Contribuidor), Gamble, Robert J. (Contribuidor), Garvey, Ellen Gruber (Contribuidor), Goettsch, Corey (Contribuidor), Greenberg, Joshua R. (Contribuidor), Hemphill, Katie M. (Contribuidor), Hollander, Craig B. (Contribuidor), Luskey, Brian P. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Mackintosh, Will B. (Contribuidor), Mendelsohn, Adam (Contribuidor), O'Malley, Brendan P. (Contribuidor), Thompson, Michael D. (Contribuidor), Woloson, Wendy A. (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Colección:Early American Studies
Temas:
Capitalism > United States > History > 19th century.
Informal sector (Economics) > United States > History > 19th century.
American Studies.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
American History.
Business.
Economics.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Loomis Gang's Market Revolution
  • Chapter 2. The Promiscuous Economy: Cultural and Commercial Geographies of Secondhand in the Antebellum City
  • Chapter 3. The Era of Shinplasters: Making Sense of Unregulated Paper Money
  • Chapter 4. The Rag Race: Jewish Secondhand Clothing Dealers in England and America
  • Chapter 5. Lickspittles and Land Sharks: The Immigrant Exploitation Business in Antebellum New York
  • Chapter 6. "The World Is But One Vast Mock Auction": Fraud and Capitalism in Nineteenth- Century America
  • Chapter 7. Underground on the High Seas: Commerce, Character, and Complicity in the Illegal Slave Trade
  • Chapter 8. "Some Rascally Business": Thieving Slaves, Unscrupulous Whites, and Charleston's Illicit Waterfront Trade
  • Chapter 9. Selling Sex and Intimacy in the City: The Changing Business of Prostitution in Nineteenth- Century Baltimore
  • Chapter 10. Economies of Print in the Nineteenth- Century City
  • Chapter 11. Back Number Budd: An African American Pioneer in the Old Newspaper and Information Management Business
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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