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701595
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b523784
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Sklansky, Jeffrey P
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The soul's economy : : market society and selfhood in American thought, 1820-1920 /\ Jeffrey Sklansky
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, [2002]
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, ©2002
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xiii, 313 pages ;; 24 cm
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0807827258
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: 0807853984
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: 9780807827253
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: 9780807853986
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-301) and index
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| Contents
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Political economy in revolutionary America -- Transcendental psychology in antebellum New England : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Bushnell, and Margaret Fuller -- Antebellum origins of American sociology : Henry C. Carey, George Fitzhugh, and Henry Hughes -- The postbellum crisis of political economy : Henry George and William Graham Sumner -- The 'new psychology' of the gilded age : William James, John Dewey, and G. Stanley Hall -- The sociological turn in progressive social science : Simon N. Patten and Thorstein Veblen, Lester F. Ward, and Edward A. Ross -- Corporate capitalism and the social self : Thomas M. Cooley and Charles H. Cooley
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"Tracing a seismic shift in American social thought, Jeffrey Sklansky offers a new synthesis of the intellectual transformation entailed in the rise of industrial capitalism. For a century after Independence, the dominant American understanding of selfhood and society came from the tradition of political economy, which defined freedom and equality in terms of ownership of the means of self-employment. However, the gradual demise of the household economy rendered proprietary independence an increasingly embattled ideal. Large landowners and industrialists claimed the right to rule as a privilege of their growing monopoly over productive resources, while dispossessed farmers and workers charged that a propertyless populace was incompatible with true liberty and democracy. Amid the widening class divide, nineteenth-century social theorists devised a new science of American society that came to be called 'social psychology.' The change Sklansky charts begins among Romantic writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, continues through the polemics of political economists such as Henry George and William Graham Sumner, and culminates with the pioneers of modern American psychology and sociology such as William James and Charles Horton Cooley. Together, these writers reconceived freedom in terms of psychic self-expression instead of economic self-interest, and they redefined democracy in terms of cultural kinship rather than social compact." -- Publisher's description
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Capitalism-- United States-- History-- 19th century
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Capitalism-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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Industrial relations-- United States-- History-- 19th century
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Industrial relations-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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Industrialization-- United States-- History-- 19th century
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Social classes-- United States-- History-- 19th century
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Social classes-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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Capitalisme - États-Unis - Histoire - 19e siècle
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Capitalisme - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
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Classes sociales - États-Unis - Histoire - 19e siècle
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Classes sociales - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
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Industrialisation - États-Unis - Histoire - 19e siècle
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Relations industrielles - États-Unis - Histoire - 19e siècle
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Relations industrielles - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
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United States, Economic conditions, 1865-1918
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United States, Economic conditions, To 1865
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United States, Social conditions, 1865-1918
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United States, Social conditions, To 1865
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| Dewey Classification
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330.973
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HD8072.S6163 2002
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