Introduction: an American revolutionary tradition / Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith
The agrarian context of American capitalist development / Christopher Clark
The mortgage worked the hardest: the fate of landed independence in nineteenth-century America / Jonathan Levy
Toxic debt, liar loans, collateralized and securitized human beings and the panic of 1837 / Edward E. Baptist
Inheriting property and debt: from family security to corporate accumulation / Elizabeth Blackmar
Slave breeding and free love: an antebellum argument over slavery, capitalism, and personhood / Amy Dru Stanley
Capitalism and the rise of the corporation nation / Robert E. Wright
Capitalist aesthetics: Americans look at the London and Liverpool docks / Tamara Plakins Thornton
William Leggett and the melodrama of the market / Jeffrey Sklansky
Producing capitalism: the clerk at work / Michael Zakim
Soulless monsters and iron horses: the Civil War, institutional change and American capitalism / Sean Patrick Adams
Afterword: Anonymous history / Jean-Christophe Agnew.
