TY - BOOK ID - 137241354 TI - Capitalism takes command AU - Zakim, Michael AU - Kornblith, Gary J PY - 2012 SN - 0226977994 9786613362964 1283362961 9780226977997 9780226451091 0226451097 9780226451107 0226451100 9781283362962 6613362964 PB - Chicago London The University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Capitalism KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - Economic conditions KW - Social conditions KW - capitalist, economy, economics, finance, financial, wealth, money, social studies, society, transformation, change, 19th century, 1800s, america, american, western, scholarly, academic, research, market, marketplace, consumer, consumption, workers, workplace, farming, laws, legal issues, mortgage, payment, inheritance, systems, risk, management, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, essay collection, anthology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137241354 AB - Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America'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-an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America's new revolutionary tradition. This multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy, but also that the revolution was not confined to the destruction of an agrarian past. As business ceaselessly revised its own practices, a new demographic of private bankers, insurance brokers, investors in securities, and start-up manufacturers, among many others, assumed center stage, displacing older elites and forms of property. Explaining how capital became an "ism" and how business became a political philosophy, Capitalism Takes Command brings the economy back into American social and cultural history. ER -