Capitalism by Gaslight : : Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America / / ed. by Brian P. Luskey, Wendy A. Woloson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Erickson, Paul,; Gamble, Robert J.,; Garvey, Ellen Gruber,; Goettsch, Corey,; Greenberg, Joshua R.,; Hemphill, Katie M.,; Hollander, Craig B.,; Luskey, Brian P.,; Mackintosh, Will B.,; Mendelsohn, Adam,; O'Malley, Brendan P.,; Thompson, Michael D.,; Woloson, Wendy A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Luskey, Brian P.,; Woloson, Wendy A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Early American Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 19 illus.

While elite merchants, financiers, shopkeepers, and customers were the most visible producers, consumers, and distributors of goods and capital in the nineteenth century, they were certainly not alone in shaping the economy. Lurking in the shadows of capitalism's past are those who made markets...

Table of 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