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CHARLES SELLERS, The Market Revolution, ]acksonian America 1815-1846 (Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1993), 502 pp., including index, bibliographical essay, and notes. $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-19-508920-0).
One might infer from the title of this book that the enterprise system in America began as a displacement of a system organized on some other basis. That was, of course, not the case. If we exclude the primitive and largely communal arrangements of the...