The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
The Market Revolution offers a sweeping, comprehensive overview of the Jacksonian period in a synthesis of political, social, economic, and cultural history. This book examines the tensions between democracy and capitalism that arose during this period after the war of 1812 and the massive...
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The Market Revolution offers a sweeping, comprehensive overview of the Jacksonian period in a synthesis of political, social, economic, and cultural history. This book examines the tensions between democracy and capitalism that arose during this period after the war of 1812 and the massive transformation of American society that followed in its wake.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
0000195089200 (0195089200)
ASIN: 195089200
Publish date: May 19th 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
“History’s most revolutionary force, the capitalist market, was wresting the future from history’s most conservative force, the land.” I can deal with the slight determinism Sellers brings into this from Marx. The thing I really object to is the theology. Sellers simply says “The Awakening had an...
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