American Capitalism: New Histories (Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism)

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America 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 on this planet of finance, The us has come to symbolize capitalism for two centuries and more. But an understanding of the history of American capitalism is as elusive as it’s urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject matter of historical inquiry? What is its potential across more than one disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how does a focal point on capitalism change our understanding of American history?

American Capitalism presents a sampling of state-of-the-art 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’s made by political authority, how it’s claimed and contested by participants, how it spreads across the globe, and how it may be reconceptualized without being universalized. A major observation for a wide-open field, this book demonstrates the breadth and scope of the work that the history of capitalism can provoke.

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