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  • Laid Waste!

    The Culture of Exploitation in Early America

    de John Lauritz Larson ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as modernization. Originating in England and Western Europe, transplanted to the Americas, then copied around the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this process locked together science and technology, political democracy, economic ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Laid Waste!

    The Culture of Exploitation in Early America

    de John Lauritz Larson ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as modernization. Originating in England and Western Europe, transplanted to the Americas, then copied around the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this process locked together science and technology, political democracy, economic ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Internal Improvement

    National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States

    de John Lauritz Larson ...
    When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government action — internal improvement.The nation’s early ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Market Revolution in America

    Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good

    de John Lauritz Larson ...
    Series series Cambridge Essential Histories
    The mass industrial democracy that is the modern United States bears little resemblance to the simple agrarian republic that gave it birth. The market revolution is the reason for this dramatic - and ironic - metamorphosis. The resulting tangled frameworks of democracy and capitalism still dominate the world as it responds to the panic of 2008. Early Americans experienced what we now call ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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  • The Market Revolution

    Jacksonian America, 1815-1846

    de Charles Sellers ...
    In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written with grace and style, this volume provides a sweeping political and social history of the entire period from the diplomacy of John Quincy Adams to the birth of Mormonism under Joseph Smith, from Jackson's ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • A New History of the American South

    de Laura F. Edwards, Jon F. Sensbach ...
    Series series A Ferris and Ferris Book
    For at least two centuries, the South’s economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar group of accomplished historians in gracefully weaving a new narrative of southern history from its ancient past to the present. This ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Lincolnomics

    How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy

    de John F. Wasik ...
    A biography of Abraham Lincoln that examines his untold legacy as the Great Builder of American infrastructure.Abraham Lincoln's view of the right to fulfill one's economic destiny was at the core of his governing philosophy―but he knew no one could climb that ladder without strong federal support. Some of his most enduring policies came to him before the Civil War, visions of a country linked by ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • American Capitalism

    New Histories

    Edición de Sven Beckert, Christine Desan ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
    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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Trade Secrets

    Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power

    de Professor Doron S. Ben-Atar ...
    During the first decades of America’s existence as a nation, private citizens, voluntary associations, and government officials encouraged the smuggling of European inventions and artisans to the New World. At the same time, the young republic was developing policies that set new standards for protecting industrial innovations. This book traces the evolution of America’s contradictory approach to ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Slavery and American Economic Development

    de Gavin Wright ...
    Series series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
    Through an analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents an innovative look at the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era. He draws a distinction between slavery as a form of work organization—the aspect that has dominated historical debates—and slavery as a set of property rights. Slave-based commerce remained central to the eighteenth-century ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Ramp Hollow

    The Ordeal of Appalachia

    de Steven Stoll ...
    How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Hamilton's Curse

    How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today

    de Thomas J. Dilorenzo ...
    Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton--two of the most influential Founding Fathers--were also fierce rivals with two opposing political philosophies and two radically different visions for America.While Jefferson is better remembered today, it is actually Hamilton’s political legacy that has triumphed--a legacy that has subverted the Constitution and transformed the federal government into the ... Leer más

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