Capitalism takes command: The social transformation of nineteenth-century America

"Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America & rsquo;s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management & mdash;an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America & rsquo;s new revolutionary tradition. This multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond"--OCLC