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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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The Methodists and Revolutionary America is the first in-depth narrative of the origins of American Methodism, one of the most significant popular movements in American history. Placing Methodism's rise in the ideological context of the American Revolution and the complex social setting of the greater Middle Atlantic where it was first introduced, Dee Andrews argues that this new religion provided an alternative to the exclusionary politics of Revolutionary America. With its call to missionary preaching, its enthusiastic revivals, and its prolific religious societies, Methodism competed with republicanism for a place at the center of American culture. Based on rare archival sources and a wealth of Wesleyan literature, this book examines all aspects of the early movement. From Methodism's Wesleyan beginnings to the prominence of women in local societies, the construction of African Methodism, the diverse social profile of Methodist men, and contests over the movement's future, Andrews charts Methodism's metamorphosis from a British missionary organization to a fully Americanized church. Weaving together narrative and analysis, Andrews explains Methodism's extraordinary popular appeal in rich and compelling new detail.

Methodist Church --- Methodism --- History --- United States --- Church history --- Abolitionism. --- Absalom Jones. --- African Methodist Episcopal Church. --- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. --- Americans. --- Anglicanism. --- Anthony Benezet. --- Baptists. --- Benjamin Chew. --- Benjamin Rush. --- British America. --- Calvinism. --- Catholic Church. --- Charles Wesley. --- Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. --- Christian revival. --- Christian. --- Christianity. --- Church attendance. --- Church of England. --- Clergy. --- Congregational church. --- Doctrine. --- Dutch Reformed Church. --- Enthusiasm. --- Episcopal Church (United States). --- Evangelical Methodist Church. --- Evangelicalism. --- Francis Asbury. --- Freeborn Garrettson. --- George Whitefield. --- God. --- Great Awakening. --- Harold Bloom. --- Huguenot. --- Itinerant preacher. --- James O'Kelly. --- John Dickins. --- John Wesley. --- Laity. --- Lorenzo Dow. --- Lutheranism. --- Marital status. --- Methodism. --- Minister (Christianity). --- Missionary (LDS Church). --- Missionary. --- Mr. --- Narrative. --- Old Testament. --- Ordination. --- Parish. --- Pastor. --- Philip Embury. --- Piety. --- Polemic. --- Politician. --- Prayer meeting. --- Prayer. --- Preacher. --- Presbyterianism. --- Protestantism. --- Psalms. --- Puritans. --- Quakers. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Religion. --- Religious Affections. --- Religious conversion. --- Religious experience. --- Religious text. --- Republicanism. --- Revival meeting. --- Righteousness. --- Robert Strawbridge. --- Rodney Stark. --- Sanctification. --- Second Great Awakening. --- Sect. --- Secularization. --- Self-denial. --- Sermon. --- Slavery. --- Southern Methodist Church. --- State religion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supporter. --- Susanna Wesley. --- The American Religion. --- The Salvation Army. --- Theology. --- Thomas Coke (bishop). --- Traditional African religion. --- United Methodist Church. --- United Society. --- Vestry. --- Vestryman. --- Vocation. --- Wesleyanism. --- Writing.