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Title: The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846 by Charles Sellers ISBN: 0-19-508920-0 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Hollow Prose and Scant Research
Comment: Sellers' text is without a doubt the most jaded and overtly biased piece of historical writing I've ever encountered. While making supreme jumps in logic, Sellers assumes that most virtuous Americans in the Jacksonian Era were opposed to the new market economy, yet fails to recognize how quickly those in the South and West embraced the blessings of a free market at the first opportunity. Without defining capitalism, or many of the other terms that he freely juggles around like a poor court jester, Sellers promotes the subsistance culture with such flowery prose that one would think it a utopian way of life. His father's legacy and his love of superfluous language are the only things that unite Seller's book, and his glaring omissions and supreme reliance upon secondary research render the text not only incoherent but incorrect.
Rating: 3
Summary: Important for the Scholar
Comment: This is one of the most important works on U.S. history before 1865 out there. BUT, it is very long and very tough reading. Put simply, if you are not extremely interested in economic history, you'll quit reading this book after 50 pages, so don't waste your money. The book contains important ideas, but they are not clearly conveyed. I recommend this book for grad. students in history (who probably will be forced to read it), but that's about it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Guide to the Forces Changing Early 19th c America
Comment: Solid all-around work on the social and economic forces that changed the United States from an Old World society, where privilege and rank were foremost, to a budding modern commercial civilization where individualism is prized and pluralistic republican principles predominate. A good read for anyone interested in the first half of the 19th century.
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Title: Liberty and Power : The Politics of Jacksonian America by Harry Watson ISBN: 0374521964 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America by Drew R. McCoy ISBN: 0807846163 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz ISBN: 0195040120 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1986 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Roll, Jordan, Roll : The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese ISBN: 0394716523 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 January, 1976 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood ISBN: 0679736883 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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