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The market revolution : Jacksonian America, 1815-1846

The central theme of this study of American life in the early 19th century is the establishment of capitalism. The author argues that, following the Industrial Revolution, two distinct societies were created in the USA: rich and poor, proprietors and labourers, city dwellers and farmers.

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Main Author: Sellers, Charles, 1923-2021.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Subjects and Genres:
Capitalism > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Representative government and representation > United States > History > 19th century.
Democracy > History > 19th century.
United States > Economic conditions > To 1865.
United States > History, 1809-1845
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Table of Contents:
  • Land and market
  • Ambiguous republicanism
  • "Let us conquer space"
  • The crisis of 1819
  • Hard times, hard feelings, hard money
  • "A general mass of disaffection"
  • God and mammon
  • Ethos vs. eros
  • Politicians "reapply principles"
  • Millennial democracy
  • Ambiguous democracy
  • The bourgeois republic
  • The great contradiction.

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