3. The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Idea of the State

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I. MAKING MARKETS
6. 1. The Capitalist Constitution 35
7. 2. What Was the Great Bull Market? Value, Valuation, and Financial History 63
8. 3. The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Idea of the State 96
9. PART II. CLAIMING AND CONTESTING CAPITALISM
10. 4. Utopian Capitalism 119
11. 5. The Sovereign Market and Sex Difference: Human Rights in America 140
12. 6. Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum America 170
13. 7. Revulsions of Capital: Slavery and Political Economy in the Epoch of the Turner Rebellion, Virginia, 1829–1832 195
14. PART III. “KNOWING” CAPITAL
15. 8. Risk, Uncertainty, and Data: Managing Risk in Twentieth- Century America 221
16. 9. Repre sentations of Capitalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 236
17. 10. Value of Life: Insurance, Slavery, and Expertise 257
18. PART IV. REFIGURING SPACE FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL
19. 11. War by Other Means: Mercantilism and Free Trade in the Age of the American Revolution 285
20. 12. “Innovative Solutions to Modern Agriculture”: Capitalist Farming, Global Competition, and the Devolution of the U.S. Rice Industry 303
21. 13. Importing the Crystal Palace 337
22. 14. Plantation Dispossessions: The Global Travel of Agricultural Racial Capitalism 361
23. Selected Bibliography 389
24. List of Contributors 403
25. Index 407