Økonomisk historie

"A compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as critic of commercial modernity. Through her major works, Wollstonecraft emerges as both political and economic radical, anticipating later Romantics. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--

Oligarchy is a threat to the republic. Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show that, for most of US history, Americans saw the Constitution as responding to that threat by imposing on legislators a duty to break up oligarchy, block corporate political power, and ensure a broad distribution of wealth and political power among ordinary Americans.

Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century.