Introduction -- Banks for a merchant city -- "Free banking" and the empire city -- Civil war -- Banks for an industrial nation -- Instability, anger, and reform -- Depression and new deal -- Banks for the American century -- New crises, new opportunities -- Capital of capital : New York and the...

"The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger history of capitalism-since the...

Introduction: Capitalism in the Economic Lives of Enslaved People -- "Negroes Publickly Cabaling in the Streets": The Enslaved Economy and the Culture of Slavery in Colonial South Carolina -- "This Infamous Traffick": Revolution in the Economic Lives of the Enslaved -- "A Dangerous and Growing...

Introduction -- Making the Land Liquid: The Roots of Land Banking -- The Special Privileges of the Federal Banks -- The Federal Land Banks and Financial Distress, 1916- -- Falling Prices and Mortgage Crisis, 1926- -- Herbert Hoover and the Urban Mortgage Crisis in the Great Depression -- A New...

Introduction -- "A bureau for the promotion of honesty" : the birth of systematic credit surveillance -- Coming to terms with credit : the nineteenth-century origins of consumer credit surveillance -- Credit workers unite : professionalization and the rise of a national credit infrastructure --...

The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has...