020 Charles Sellers' The Market Revolution [1991] with Michael Zakim (History of History 5)
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In The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846, one of America's most distinguished historians offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and...
show moreEqually important, he offers a provocative new way of looking at this crucial period, showing how the boom that followed the War of 1812 ignited a generational conflict over the republic's destiny, a struggle that changed America dramatically. Sellers stresses throughout that democracy was born in tension with capitalism, not as its natural political expression, and he shows how the massive national resistance to commercial interests ultimately rallied around Andrew Jackson.
Discussing this landmark in the study of the Age of Jackson is Michael Zakim.
Michael Zakim is associate professor of history at Tel Aviv University. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1998. He is the author of Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860 and Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made and the co-editor of Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America.
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