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Titre(s) : Capitalism by gaslight [Texte imprimé] : illuminating the economy of nineteenth-century America / edited by Brian P. Luskey and Wendy A. Woloson
Édition : 1st ed
Publication : Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-316 p.) : ill., map ; 24 cm
Collection : Early American studies
Lien à la collection : Early American studies
Comprend : The Loomis Gang's market revolution / Will B. Mackintosh ; The promiscuous economy:
cultural and commercial geographies of secondhand in the antebellum city / Robert
J. Gamble ; The era of shinplasters: making sense of unregulated paper money / Joshua
R. Greenberg ; The rag race: Jewish second-hand clothing dealers in England and America
/ Adam Mendelsohn ; Lickspittles and land sharks: the immigrant exploitation business
in antebellum New York / Brendan P. O'Malley ; "The world is but one vast mock auction":
fraud and capitalism in nineteenth century America / Corey Goettsch ; Underground
on the high seas: commerce, character, and complicity in the illegal slave trade /
Craig B. Hollander ; "Some rascally business": thieving slaves, unscrupulous whites,
and Charleston's illicit waterfront trade / Michael D. Thompson ; Selling sex and
intimacy in the city: the changing business of prostitution in nineteenth-century
Baltimore / Katie M. Hemphill ; Economies of print in the nineteenth-century city
/ Paul Erickson ; Back Number Budd: an African American pioneer in the old newspaper
and information management business / Ellen Gruber Garvey.
Note(s) : "The essays here contain revised and expanded versions of many of the papers presented
at a conference jointly sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
and the Library Company of Philadelphia"--Preface. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-301) and index
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Luskey, Brian P.. Éditeur scientifique
Woloson, Wendy A. (1964-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Capitalisme -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Conditions économiques -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Conditions sociales -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780812246896 (hbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0812246896 (hbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9780812291025 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44299163k
Notice n° :
FRBNF44299163
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