Trading Spaces
The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism
296 pages
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10 halftones, 1 table
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6 x 9
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© 2019
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Part 1: The Early Modern Marketplace and its Colonial Encounter
1 A Journey through Early Modern Trading Spaces
2 The Market Turned Upside Down
Part 2: Remaking the Marketplace
3 Making a Colonial Marketplace
4 The Resurgence of Early Modern Market Values
Part 3: Confronting the Colonial Marketplace
5 Revolution in the Marketplace
6 Making a Republican Marketplace
Conclusion: Constitution Making and the Marketplace
Epilogue:The Colonial Marketplace’s American Legacy
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Part 1: The Early Modern Marketplace and its Colonial Encounter
1 A Journey through Early Modern Trading Spaces
2 The Market Turned Upside Down
Part 2: Remaking the Marketplace
3 Making a Colonial Marketplace
4 The Resurgence of Early Modern Market Values
Part 3: Confronting the Colonial Marketplace
5 Revolution in the Marketplace
6 Making a Republican Marketplace
Conclusion: Constitution Making and the Marketplace
Epilogue:The Colonial Marketplace’s American Legacy
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Review Quotes
Joanna Cohen | author of Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America
“Fascinating and insightful, Trading Spaces is a major contribution. Hart provides an important corrective to recent scholarship, reminding us that though capitalism may be a global system, it is enacted and effected locally. I can see no other book that makes clear the significance of market practice to the evolution of economic relations, political economy, and imperial politics in the way that Trading Spaces does.”
Christopher Clark | author of The Roots of Rural Capitalism
“Original and innovative. No other work brings early American economic experience into direct comparison with contemporary British practices and simultaneously explores the racial and ethnic dimensions of colonial marketplaces. Trading Spaces is well-reasoned and even-handed, but its argument should prove provocative in that it will ask early Americanists to reconsider their preconceptions. This will be an indispensable book.”
Margaret Newell | author of Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
“A compelling addition to the history of capitalism, Trading Spaces reminds us that globalization’s current realities have deep roots in the early modern era. Hart explores the shift from marketplaces to markets through the lens of colonization, revealing how the explosion of global trade gave rise to clashing visions about people’s interactions with markets, with consequences for both America’s independence and its capitalist future.”
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