The Market Revolution

Why read it

• You will see how a boom and bust economy reshapes what ordinary people feel and believe
• You will understand why slavery was tied to the growth of modern industry and not separate from it
• You will learn why hard economic times can turn people toward religion when politics seems to offer them no rescue

Who it is for

• Readers who want the economic roots of the Civil War
• History fans of early nineteenth century America
• Anyone asking how capitalism and slavery fit together

Contents

1. Chapter 1 Land and Market
2. Chapter 2 Ambiguous Republicanism
3. Chapter 3 “Let Us Conquer Space”
4. Chapter 4 The Crisis of 1819
5. Chapter 5 Hard Times, Hard Feelings, Hard Money
6. Chapter 6 “A General Mass of Disaffection”
7. Chapter 7 God and Mammon
8. Chapter 8 Ethos vs. Eros
9. Chapter 9 Politicians “Reapply Principles”
10. Chapter 10 Millennial Democracy
11. Chapter 11 Ambiguous Democracy
12. Chapter 12 The Bourgeois Republic
13. Chapter 13 The Great Contradiction
14. Bibliographical Essay

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