Author: John V. SullivanPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
How Our Laws are Made
Author: John V. SullivanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Parole and Documentary Evidence
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Conduct of the Governor, William FindlayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Report of the Proceedings Before the Committee Appointed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania to Inquire Into the Legal Relations of the Standard Oil Company to the State
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint committee appointed to inquire into the legal relations of the Standard Oil Company to the statePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governmental investigations
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Journal of the ... of the ... House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Journal
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library, January 1, 1978
Author: Pennsylvania State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Pennsylvania Politics, 1817-1832
Author: Philip Shriver KleinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library: Catalogue of miscellaneous books. 742 p
Author: Report of the Committee Appointed to Visit the Eastern Pentitentiary and House of Refuge in the County of Philadelphia
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate. Committee Appointed to Visit the Eastern Pentitentiary and House of Refuge in the County of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
America Under the Hammer
Author: Ellen Hartigan-O'ConnorPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512826529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Reveals how, through auctions, early Americans learned capitalism As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked institution to reveal how, across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, price became an accepted expression of value. From the earliest days of colonial conquest, auctions put Native land and human beings up for bidding alongside material goods, normalizing new economic practices that turned social relations into economic calculations and eventually became recognizable as nineteenth-century American capitalism. Starting in the eighteenth century, neighbors collectively turned speculative value into economic “facts” in the form of concrete prices for specific items, thereby establishing ideas about fair exchange in their communities. This consensus soon fractured: during the Revolutionary War, state governments auctioned loyalist property, weaponizing local group participation in pricing and distribution to punish political enemies. By the early nineteenth century, suspicion that auction outcomes were determined by manipulative auctioneers prompted politicians and satirists to police the boundaries of what counted as economic exchange and for whose benefit the economy operated. Women at auctions—as commodities, bidders, or beneficiaries—became a focal point for gendering economic value itself. By the 1830s, as abolitionists attacked the public sale of enslaved men, women, and children, auctions had enshrined a set of economic ideas—that any entity could be coded as property and priced through competition—that have become commonsense understandings all too seldom challenged. In contrast to histories focused on banks, currencies, or plantations, America Under the Hammer highlights an institution that integrated market, community, and household in ways that put gender, race, and social bonds at the center of ideas about economic worth. Women and men, enslaved and free, are active participants in this story rather than bystanders, and their labor, judgments, and bodies define the resulting contours of the American economy.