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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Main Author: Levy, Jonathan, 1978-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067202
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