Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism – serie
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Creditworthy
A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
Av Josh Lauer
Inbunden, 2017
1245 kr
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The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bureaus are among the most powerful institutions in modern life-yet we know almost nothing about them. Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion are …
From Head Shops to Whole Foods
The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs
Av Joshua Davis
Inbunden, 2017
1245 kr
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In the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of storefronts-including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers-brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the marketplace. Through shared ownership, limited …
From Head Shops to Whole Foods
The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs
Av Joshua Davis
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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In the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of storefronts—including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers—brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the marketplace. Through shared ownership, limited …
How the Suburbs Were Segregated
Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960
Inbunden, 2020
1245 kr
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The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second World War, when sweeping federal policies hollowed out cities, pushed rapid suburbanization, and created a white homeowner class intent on defending racial barriers. Paige Glotzer offers a new …
How the Suburbs Were Segregated
Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second World War, when sweeping federal policies hollowed out cities, pushed rapid suburbanization, and created a white homeowner class intent on defending racial barriers. Paige Glotzer offers a new …
Rise of Corporate Feminism
Women in the American Office, 1960–1990
Inbunden, 2022
1245 kr
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From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greater opportunities for career advancement, occupational segregation by gender remained entrenched. How did feminism in corporate America come to …
Rise of Corporate Feminism
Women in the American Office, 1960–1990
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greater opportunities for career advancement, occupational segregation by gender remained entrenched. How did feminism in corporate America come to …
The Lowest Freedom
Racial Capitalism and Black Thought in the Nineteenth Century
Av Justin Leroy
Inbunden, 2026
980 kr
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Throughout the nineteenth century, Black thinkers grappled with the material limits of freedom. They insisted that emancipation without economic self-determination would reproduce the inequalities of slavery, arguing that true freedom required not only civil rights and suffrage but also defending …
Banking on Freedom
Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal
Inbunden, 2019
2293 kr
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Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, Shennette Garrett-Scott explores this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the …
Banking on Freedom
Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal
Häftad, 2019
317 kr
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Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, Shennette Garrett-Scott explores this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the …
Brain Magnet
Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy
Inbunden, 2020
1068 kr
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Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill as the kernel of a tech hub, Research Triangle Park, which would lure a new …
Brain Magnet
Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy
Häftad, 2020
557 kr
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Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill as the kernel of a tech hub, Research Triangle Park, which would lure a new …
American Capitalism
New Histories
Av Sven Beckert, Christine Desan
Inbunden, 2018
1422 kr
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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 shaped …
American Capitalism
New Histories
Av Sven Beckert, Christine Desan
Häftad, 2019
361 kr
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The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world …
Buying Gay
How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement
Inbunden, 2019
1112 kr
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In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands—the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles, letters from readers, and advertisements, served …
Buying Gay
How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement
Häftad, 2021
212 kr
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In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands—the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles, letters from readers, and advertisements, served …
Threatening Property
Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods
Inbunden, 2019
2293 kr
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White supremacists determined what African Americans could do and where they could go in the Jim Crow South, but they were less successful in deciding where black people could live because different groups of white supremacists did not agree on the question of residential segregation. In …
Threatening Property
Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods
Häftad, 2019
317 kr
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White supremacists determined what African Americans could do and where they could go in the Jim Crow South, but they were less successful in deciding where black people could live because different groups of white supremacists did not agree on the question of residential segregation. In …
Histories of Racial Capitalism
Av Justin Leroy, Destin Jenkins
Inbunden, 2021
2384 kr
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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 beginning of …
Histories of Racial Capitalism
Av Justin Leroy, Destin Jenkins
Häftad, 2021
324 kr
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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 beginning of …
Faith in Markets
Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic
Inbunden, 2023
1381 kr
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States saw both a series of Protestant religious revivals and the dramatic expansion of the marketplace. Although today conservative Protestantism is associated with laissez-faire capitalism, many of the nineteenth-century believers who …
Faith in Markets
Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic
Häftad, 2023
350 kr
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States saw both a series of Protestant religious revivals and the dramatic expansion of the marketplace. Although today conservative Protestantism is associated with laissez-faire capitalism, many of the nineteenth-century believers who …
Unfree Markets
The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina
Inbunden, 2021
1289 kr
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The everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to complete. But in spare moments, they found time in which to earn money and obtain goods for themselves. Enslaved people led vibrant economic lives, cultivating produce and raising …
Unfree Markets
The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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The everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to complete. But in spare moments, they found time in which to earn money and obtain goods for themselves. Enslaved people led vibrant economic lives, cultivating produce and raising …
City of Workers, City of Struggle
How Labor Movements Changed New York
Inbunden, 2019
1245 kr
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From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Starting with artisans and slaves in colonial New York and ranging all the way to twenty-first-century gig-economy workers, this book tells the story of New …
City of Workers, City of Struggle
How Labor Movements Changed New York
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Starting with artisans and slaves in colonial New York and ranging all the way to twenty-first-century gig-economy workers, this book tells the story of New …
Dead Pledge
The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913–1939
Inbunden, 2021
1245 kr
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The American government today supports a financial system based on mortgage lending, and it often bails out the financial institutions making these mortgages. The Dead Pledge reveals the surprising origins of American mortgages and American bailouts in policies dating back to the early twentieth …
Dead Pledge
The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913–1939
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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The American government today supports a financial system based on mortgage lending, and it often bails out the financial institutions making these mortgages. The Dead Pledge reveals the surprising origins of American mortgages and American bailouts in policies dating back to the early twentieth …
Natural Risk
A History of Oil, Politics, and the Environment in West Texas
Inbunden, 2026
2293 kr
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The longest-running oil-producing region in Texas, the Permian Basin fueled the state’s transformation from agricultural backwater to extractive powerhouse in the middle of the twentieth century. During the same period, Texas was also a crucial outlier in a national trend that placed risk …
Natural Risk
A History of Oil, Politics, and the Environment in West Texas
Häftad, 2026
635 kr
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The longest-running oil-producing region in Texas, the Permian Basin fueled the state’s transformation from agricultural backwater to extractive powerhouse in the middle of the twentieth century. During the same period, Texas was also a crucial outlier in a national trend that placed risk …
