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The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846: Jacksonian America, 1815-46 Book

The central theme of this study of American life in the early 19th century is the establishment of capitalism. The author argues that following the Industrial Revolution two distinct societies were created in the USA: rich and poor proprietors and labourers city dwellers and farmers.Read More

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    In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written with grace and style, this volume provides a sweeping political and social history of the entire period from the diplomacy of John Quincy Adams to the birth of Mormonism under Joseph Smith, from Jackson's slaughter of the Indians in Georgia and Florida to the Depression of 1819, and from the growth of women's rights to the spread of the temperance movement. Equally important, he offers a provocative new way of looking at this crucial period, showing how the boom that followed the War of 1812 ignited a generational conflict over the republic's destiny, a struggle that changed America dramatically. Sellers stresses throughout that democracy was born in tension with capitalism, not as its natural political expression, and he shows how the massive national resistance to commericial interests ultimately rallied around Andrew Jackson. An unusually comprehensive blend of social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history, this accessible work provides a challenging analysis of this period, with important implications for the study of American history as a whole. It will revolutionize thinking about Jacksonian America.

  • 0195089200
  • 9780195089202
  • Charles Sellers
  • 14 July 1994
  • OUP USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 512
  • New Ed
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