Freaks of fortune : the emerging world of capitalism and risk in America /
Amid the nineteenth-century's waning faith in God's providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of o...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2012
Cambridge, Mass. : 2012 |
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