Cultural change and the market revolution in America, 1789-1860

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Author:

Martin, Scott C., 1959-

ISBN:

9780742527706

9780742527713

Publication Information:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005.

Physical Description:

vi, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction : towards a cultural history of the market revolution / Scott C. Martin -- The market revolution and market values in Antebellum Black protest thought / Patrick Rael -- A cultural frontier : ethnicity and the marketplace in Charlotte, Vermont, 1845-1860 / Kevin Thornton -- Native Americans, the market revolution, and culture change : the Choctaw cattle economy, 1690-1830 / James Taylor Carson -- The "sharper" image : Yankee peddlers, Southern consumers, and the market revolution / Joseph T. Rainer -- "Well bred country people" : sociability, social networks, and the creation of a provincial middle class, 1820-1860 / Catherine E. Kelly -- "In the sweat of thy brow" : education, manual labor, and the market revolution / Jeffrey A. Mullins -- "I have brought my pig to a fine market" : animals, their exhibitors, and market culture in the early Republic / Brett Mizelle -- Temperance nostalgia, market anxiety, and the reintegration of community in T.S. Arthur's Ten nights in a bar-room / Graham Warder -- Interpreting metamora : nationalism, theater, and Jacksonian Indian policy / Scott C. Martin.

Subject Term:

Capitalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.

Capitalism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.

Capitalism -- Religious aspects -- History.

Democracy -- United States -- History.

Added Author:

Martin, Scott C., 1959-

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy052/2004010459.html

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Although the political and economic impacts of America's market revolution are well-defined, little attention has been paid to the changes it wrought in America's social and cultural fabric. In this exciting new work, Scott C. Martin brings together cutting-edge scholarship and articles from diverse sources to explore the cultural dimensions of the market revolution in America.

The essays probe how Americans' participation in widening financial networks, exposure to an ever-increasing array of consumer goods, and struggles against unfamiliar economic forces influenced family life, class formation, gender roles, ethnic and racial identification, and social interaction. The contributors also investigate how the cultural values and social practices with which Americans responded to economic change shaped the evolution of the market. By reflecting on the reciprocal relationship between cultural and economic change, Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America, 1789-1860 deepens our understanding of American society during the turbulent early nineteenth century.