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The mass industrial democracy that is the modern United States bears little resemblance to the simple agrarian republic that gave it birth. The market revolution is the reason for this dramatic - and ironic - metamorphosis. The resulting tangled frameworks of democracy and capitalism still dominate the world as it responds to the panic of 2008. Early Americans experienced what we w call 'modernization'. The exhilaration - and pain - they endured have been repeated in nearly every part of the globe. Born of freedom and ambition, the market revolution in America fed on democracy and individualism even while it generated inequality, dependency, and unimagined wealth and power. In this book, John Lauritz Larson explores the lure of market capitalism and the beginnings of industrialization in the United States. His research combines an appreciation for enterprise and invation with recognition of negative and unanticipated consequences of the transition to capitalism and relates ecomic change directly to American freedom and self-determination, links that remain entirely relevant today.

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-10052170989x

ISBN-139780521709897

eBay Product ID (ePID)96029173

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Number of Pages224 Pages

Publication NameMarket Revolution in America : Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

SubjectEconomics: Professional & General

TypeTextbook

AuthorJohn Lauritz Larson

Subject AreaBusiness & Economics, History

SeriesCambridge Essential Histories Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback (Us), Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.9 in

Height228mm

Width152mm

Weight340g

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Date of Publication14/09/2009

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Place of PublicationCambridge

Spine13mm

Series TitleCambridge Essential Histories

Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom

GenreEconomics: Professional & General

Author BiographyJohn Lauritz Larson is professor of history at Purdue University. For ten years he served as co-editor of the Journal of the Early Republic. He is the author of Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age (1984) and Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the New United States (2001), as well as numerous essays on early American economic development.

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