Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert looks beyond the cities to the coffee and cotton that fuelled a global market.

IN THE THIRD VOLUME OF HER REMARKABLE FOUR-VOLUME SURVEY, FRENCH (THE WOMEN\x81FS ROOM) ILLUMINATES HOW THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WORKED AGAINST WOMEN OVER THE COURSE OF THE 19TH CENTURY. FRENCH ...

The sooner people wake up to the necessity of ushering in an alternative path of development, based on the home market and ...

At the dawn of the 19th century, an Irish immigrant named Alexander Brown arrived in Baltimore and set up shop as a linen merchant. The firm that he founded would evolve into one of America’s most ...

Introduction: an American revolutionary tradition / Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith -- The agrarian context of American capitalist development / Christopher Clark -- The mortgage worked the ...

As Ted Robert Gurr and others have shown, crime in America and England rose in the first half of the 19th century and then declined in the second half. Just as industrial capitalism was making its ...

While the term has largely gone out of style, robber baron was an expression used to negatively describe powerful American businessmen of the 19th century. It was applied to those who were viewed as ...