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A Historigraphical Look at Wealth and Power in a Democracy

A Speculator's Paradise: Market Capitalism and the Expansion of the Slave South

Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture Is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul

America under the Hammer: Auctions and Market Culture

America's Racial Capitalism and African American Business Confront the Nation's New Immigrants

American Capitalism in Historical Perspective

B

Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: The Emerging Shape of the Next System

Breadwinners: Working Women in the Early Struggle for Gender Equality

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"Captive Capitalists": Slave and Free Black Entrepreneurship in Antebellum America

Capitalism and Black Community: Race, Banking, and ShoreBank's Struggle for Community Development Banking, 1973–2010

Capitalism and Slavery

Cheap Food and the Political Economy of Recent America

Consumer Culture and Capitalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Continental Imperialism on the 32nd Parallel

Counterfeiting and Capitalism in America

D

Democracy in the Age of Capital

Ditch Diggers of the World: Capitalism, Expansionism, and Working-Class Formation

E

Economic Causes of Progressivism

Empire's Tracks

Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in American History

Entrepreneurs of the New Deal

F

Finding the Origins of American Capitalism in the Archives of Southern Slavery

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Globalization in Historical Perspective

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Historicizing "Shock": The Relevance of Piketty's "U-Shaped Curve" to the American Century

Houses, Cars, and Children: The Birth, Life, and Death of Postwar American Consumption

How the Economies of the North and South Came to Differ

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Informal and Underground Economy

Investing in Distress: Predatory Tax Buying in America

K

Karl Marx in America

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Labor and Capital in Nineteenth-Century America: The Standard-of-Living Controversy Revisited

Learning about America from Starbucks

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Narrating the Great Recession: Economic Crisis and the Politics of Economic Reform

Neoliberal Social Justice: From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama

O

On Demand: Rethinking the Modern History of Consumption

One Nation under God: Corporations, Christianity, and the Rise of Religious Nationalism

P

Paperwork, or How Capitalism Produced the Market

R

Racial Capitalism

Racial Capitalism, Indian Hating, and the Imperium of St. Louis

Reflections on the 150th Anniversary of Reconstruction

Rethinking Philanthropy

S

Slavery and the Southern Economy: Myths and Realities

Socially Created Wealth and Its Distribution and Maldistribution

T

"The American and Foreign Agency": Profit and a Prophet of American Commercial Expansionism

The Apples of Our Eyes: Art and Property in American Horticulture

The Case of the Leaky Clerk: Commercial Information, Confidence, and the Panic of 1837

The Cult of the Entrepreneur and the Rise of Donald Trump: How Faith in Capitalist Innovation Restructured American Democracy

The Day Wall Street Exploded: America in its First Age of Terror

The Empire of Cotton: A Global History

The Gilded American Dream: Homeownership, Wealth, and Welfare from the New Deal to the Subprime Crash

The Globalization of Agriculture: A Cautionary Note from the Rice Trade

The Great Constipation: Nervous Disorder in the Age of Capital

The Impact of Depression and War on the United States

The Legal and Historical Foundations of Modern American Capitalism

The Neoliberal Turn

The Perils of Prosperity: Christianity, Capitalism, and Consumerism in the United States

The Postwar Boom in Retrospect

The Sorry Built Environment of Early America

The Standard of Living over the Past Five Hundred Years

The Three Rs over Three Centuries

The Trigger of History: Rethinking Capitalism and Modernity

Their Great Depression and Ours: Origins, Effects, and Paths to Recovery

Triumphalism and Apocalypse: How American Intellectuals Have Thought About Capitalism in the Last Century

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Walmart and World History: How the Big Store is Reshaping Society and Economy

What Did the Self-Made Man Actually Make?

What's New about the History of Capitalism?

Work, Family, and the Development of American Capitalism