Capitalism takes command: the social transformation of nineteenth-century America

Introduction: an American revolutionary tradition / Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith

The agrarian context of American capitalist development / Christopher Clark

The mortgage worked the hardest: the fate of landed independence in nineteenth-century America / Jonathan Levy

Toxic debt, liar loans, collateralized and securitized human beings and the panic of 1837 / Edward E. Baptist

Inheriting property and debt: from family security to corporate accumulation / Elizabeth Blackmar

Slave breeding and free love: an antebellum argument over slavery, capitalism, and personhood / Amy Dru Stanley

Capitalism and the rise of the corporation nation / Robert E. Wright

Capitalist aesthetics: Americans look at the London and Liverpool docks / Tamara Plakins Thornton

William Leggett and the melodrama of the market / Jeffrey Sklansky

Producing capitalism: the clerk at work / Michael Zakim

Soulless monsters and iron horses: the Civil War, institutional change and American capitalism / Sean Patrick Adams

Afterword: Anonymous history / Jean-Christophe Agnew.