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When we talk about the economy, "the market" is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In Trading Spaces, Emma Hart argues that Britain's colonization of North America was a key moment in the market's shift from place to idea, with major consequences for the character of the American economy. Hart's book takes in the shops, auction sites, wharves, taverns, fairs, and homes of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America-places where new mechanisms and conventions of trade arose as Europeans re-created or adapted continental methods to new surroundings. Since those earlier conventions tended to rely on regulation more than their colonial offspring did, what emerged in early America was a less fettered brand of capitalism. By the nineteenth century this had evolved into a market economy that would not look too foreign to contemporary Americans. To tell this complex transnational story of how our markets came to be, Hart looks back farther than most historians of US capitalism, rooting these markets in the norms of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Perhaps most important, this is not a story of specific commodity markets over time but rather is a history of the trading spaces themselves: the physical sites in which the grubby work of commerce occurred and where the market itself was born.

Markets --- History. --- United States --- Great Britain --- Commerce --- Colonies --- Economic conditions. --- History --- British America. --- Pennsylvania. --- South Carolina. --- capitalism. --- eighteenth century. --- markets. --- public good.

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Heterosexual Histories constructs a new framework for the history of heterosexuality, examining unexplored assumptions and insisting that not only sex but race, class, gender, age, and geography matter to its past. Each of the fourteen essays in this volume examines the history of heterosexuality from a different angle, seeking to study this topic in a way that recognizes plurality, divergence, and inequity. [The editors] have formed a collection that spans four centuries, addressing the many different racial groups, geographies, and subcultures of heterosexuality in North America. The essays range across disciplines with experts from various fields examining heterosexuality from unique perspectives: a historian shows how defining heterosexuality, sex, and desire were integral to the formation of British America and the process of colonization; a legal scholar examines the connections between race, sexual citizenship, and nonmarital motherhood; a gender studies expert analyzes the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, and explores the intersections of heterosexuality with shame and second-wave feminism. Together, these essays explain how differently earlier Americans understood the varieties of gender and different-sex sexuality, how heterosexuality emerged as a dominant way of describing gender, and how openly many people acknowledged and addressed heterosexuality's fragility. By contesting presumptions of heterosexuality's stability or consistency, Heterosexual Histories opens the historical record to interrogations of the raced, classed, and gendered varieties of heterosexuality and considers the implications of heterosexuality's multiplicities and changes.-- ""Heterosexual Histories" is en edited volume that explores heterosexuality in various cultural, historical, and societal contexts"--

Heterosexuality --- History. --- African American. --- Asian American. --- British America. --- Cold War. --- Colonial. --- Early Americans. --- Humiliation. --- Judeo-Christian. --- Mexican. --- Monica Lewinsky. --- North America. --- U.S. Southwest. --- academics. --- antebellum. --- attraction. --- beauty. --- bodies. --- citizenship. --- class. --- clinical practice. --- color line. --- couples. --- desirability. --- desire. --- discrimination. --- emotion. --- employment. --- episiotomy. --- faith communities. --- feminism. --- gender. --- gynecology. --- heteronormative. --- heteronormativity. --- history. --- homosexuality. --- households. --- illegitimacy. --- illicit. --- interracial. --- interraciality. --- law. --- love. --- marriage. --- middle-class. --- migration. --- morality. --- newspapers. --- normal body. --- normal. --- parody. --- pleasure. --- power. --- print culture. --- prostitution. --- queer critique. --- queerness. --- race. --- racialized heterosexuality. --- reform. --- regulation. --- religion. --- representation. --- reproductive. --- research. --- science. --- settler colonialism. --- sexes. --- sexual harassment. --- sexual identity. --- sexual revolution. --- slavery. --- spectacle. --- suburbia. --- swinging. --- unmarried mothers.

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How an obscure Puritan sermon came to be seen as a founding document of American identity and exceptionalism "For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill," John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthrop's long-forgotten words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism? In As a City on a Hill, leading American intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers tells the surprising story of one of the most celebrated documents in the canon of the American idea. In doing so, he brings to life the ideas Winthrop's text carried in its own time and the sharply different yearnings that have been attributed to it since. As a City on a Hill shows how much more malleable, more saturated with vulnerability, and less distinctly American Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was than the document that twentieth-century Americans invented. Across almost four centuries, Rodgers traces striking shifts in the meaning of Winthrop's words-from Winthrop's own anxious reckoning with the scrutiny of the world, through Abraham Lincoln's haunting reference to this "almost chosen people," to the "city on a hill" that African Americans hoped to construct in Liberia, to the era of Donald Trump. As a City on a Hill reveals the circuitous, unexpected ways Winthrop's words came to lodge in American consciousness. At the same time, the book offers a probing reflection on how nationalism encourages the invention of "timeless" texts to straighten out the crooked realities of the past.

Cities and towns --- City and town life. --- Sociology, Urban. --- History. --- Winthrop, John, --- Winthrop, John, --- Winthrop, John, --- Influence. --- 1600-1775 --- United States --- United States. --- History --- A Model of Christian Charity. --- Abolitionism. --- African Americans. --- Alexis de Tocqueville. --- American exceptionalism. --- American nationalism. --- American studies. --- Americans. --- Anne Hutchinson. --- Annexation. --- Arbella. --- Atlantic World. --- Barack Obama. --- Bourgeoisie. --- British America. --- Calvinism. --- Capitalism. --- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. --- Chosen people. --- Chris Christie. --- Christianity. --- City on a Hill. --- City upon a Hill. --- Civilization. --- Colonization. --- Debt. --- Donald Trump. --- Economic Life. --- Emigration. --- England. --- Exceptionalism. --- Existentialism. --- Frederick Jackson Turner. --- Generosity. --- George W. Bush. --- God. --- Great power. --- Historian. --- Imperialism. --- Indigenous peoples. --- Injunction. --- John Calvin. --- John L. O'Sullivan. --- John Winthrop. --- Laborer. --- Liberia. --- Literature. --- Manifest destiny. --- Martin Luther King, Jr. --- Massachusetts Bay Colony. --- Massachusetts Historical Society. --- Nationalism. --- New England. --- New Israel. --- New Nation (United States). --- Old Testament. --- Patriotism. --- Perry Miller. --- Pessimism. --- Piety. --- Political culture. --- Politics. --- Polity. --- Poor relief. --- Princeton University Press. --- Protestantism. --- Puritans. --- Quakers. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Republican National Convention. --- Rhetoric. --- Righteousness. --- Ronald Reagan. --- Samuel Eliot Morison. --- Scrutiny. --- Seminar. --- Sermon. --- Shareholder. --- Slavery in the United States. --- Slavery. --- Society of Jesus. --- Soviet Union. --- Speechwriter. --- Stanford University. --- Suggestion. --- Tax. --- Theocracy. --- Theology. --- Thomas Paine. --- United States. --- Usury. --- Vernon Louis Parrington. --- Wealth. --- White-Jacket. --- William Lloyd Garrison. --- Woodrow Wilson. --- Works of mercy. --- World War I. --- World War II. --- Writing.