Screen LibraryCapitalism by gaslight : illuminating the economy of nineteenth-century america /
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Early american studies
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812291025 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812291025.jpg |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 19 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812291025 |
| Index Number: | HC105 |
| CLC: | F171.294 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Chapter 1. The Loomis Gang s Market Revolution / Chapter 2. The Promiscuous Economy: Cultural and Commercial Geographies of Secondhand in the Antebellum City / Chapter 3. The Era of Shinplasters: Making Sense of Unregulated Paper Money / Chapter 4. The Rag Race: Jewish Secondhand Clothing Dealers in England and America / Chapter 5. Lickspittles and Land Sharks: The Immigrant Exploitation Business in Antebellum New York / Chapter 6. "The World Is But One Vast Mock Auction": Fraud and Capitalism in Nineteenth- Century America / Chapter 7. Underground on the High Seas: Commerce, Character, and Complicity in the Illegal Slave Trade / Chapter 8. "Some Rascally Business": Thieving Slaves, Unscrupulous Whites, and Charleston s Illicit Waterfront Trade / Chapter 9. Selling Sex and Intimacy in the City: The Changing Business of Prostitution in Nineteenth- Century Baltimore / Chapter 10. Economies of Print in the Nineteenth- Century City / Chapter 11. Back Number Budd: An African American Pioneer in the Old Newspaper and Information Management Business / Conclusion / Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |