The Market Revolution in America or Talking Leadership

The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political, and Religious Expressions, 1800-1880

Author: Melvyn Stokes

In the last few years, growing attention has been paid by historians to the idea of a 'market revolution' in early nineteenth-century America. A largely subsistence economy of small farms and tiny workshops, satisfying mostly local needs through barter and exchange, gave place to an economy in which farmers and manufacturers produced food and goods for the cash rewards of an often distant marketplace. Such change had major implications for household arrangements, social institutions, political ideology and practice, and cultural patterns.

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Twelve essays responding to the Charles Sellars work, The Market Revolution, expand his economic historical account of the shift from agrarian subsistence to agri-business in the 19th century. The explorations, including an essay by Sellars, diversify the thesis to examine the impact of an expanding market on social arrangements, politics, in religion, and the costs and benefits of rising capitalism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The Consequences of the Market Revolution in the American North	23
2	Slavery and Development in a Dual Economy: The South and the Market Revolution	43
3	Home Life and the Morality of the Market	74
4	Free Labor and Nineteenth-Century Political Ideology	99
5	Free Labor, Wage Labor, and the Slave Power: Republicanism and the Republican Party in the 1850s	128
6	The Market Revolution and the Transformation of American Politics, 1801-1837	149
7	The Crisis of Commercialization: National Political Alignments and the Market Revolution, 1819-1844	177
8	Slavery, Antislavery, and Jacksonian Democracy	202
9	From Center to Periphery: The Market Revolution and Major-Party Conflict, 1835-1880	224
10	The Market Revolution and the Shaping of Identity in Whig-Jacksonian America	259
11	"Antinomians" and "Arminians": Methodists and the Market Revolution	282
12	Capitalism and Democracy in American Historical Mythology	311
	Conclusion	331
	Contributors	337
	Index	339

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Talking Leadership: Conversations with Powerful Women

Author: Mary S Hartman

The Leaders Featured in Talking Leadership:

• Peggy Antrobus—prize-winning economist and founding director of the Women and Development Unit at the University of West Indies.
• Susan Berresford—first woman president of the Ford Foundation.
• Mildred Dresselhaus—first tenured woman faculty member in the engineering school, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and National Medal of Science winner.
• Antonia Hernandez—president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
• bell hooks—author of numerous books, including Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self Recovery and Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism.
• Lois Juliber—executive vice president and chief of operations, developed markets, at Colgate-Palmolive Company.
• Karen Nussbaum—director, Working Women's Department, the first women's unit with the AFL-CIO.
• Jacqueline Pitanguy—former president of Brazil's National Council for Women's Right.
• Anna Quindlen—Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, bestselling author and social critic.
• Nafis Sadik—executive director, United Nations Population Fund.
• Patricia Schroeder—twenty-four-year Democratic veteran in the US Congress and C.E.O, Association of American Publishers.
• Ruth Simmons—first African American and third woman president of Smith College.
• Christine Todd Whitman—first woman governor of New Jersey.

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  Interviews with 13 women, in areas ranging from philanthropy to politics and from business to academia, present a thought-provoking look at differences and commonalities in the lives and leadership approaches of women committed to social change. Beyond personal details and anecdotes, conversations capture a variety of experiences and insights reflecting what it's like to be a woman and a major leader in America at the close of the 20th century. Hartman is a professor and director for the Institute of Women's Leadership at Douglass College, Rutgers University. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)