The Genie and the Troll: Capitalism in the Early American Republic

IF 0.8 2区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC Pub Date : 2022-11-29 DOI:10.1353/jer.2022.0079

J. L. Larson

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay reviews the efforts of modern historians to explain the rise and development of capitalism in the early United States. Often assumed to be synonymous with democracy and freedom, capitalism as a system of social and economic organization has presented historians with an interpretive dilemma—suggested by the allusion to "the genie and the troll." The rich historiography from the 20th and early 21st centuries is surveyed here.

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精灵与巨魔：美国早期的资本主义

摘要：本文回顾了现代历史学家为解释资本主义在美国早期的兴起和发展所做的努力。资本主义作为一种社会和经济组织体系，经常被认为是民主和自由的同义词，它给历史学家带来了一种解释困境——这是由“精灵和巨魔”的暗示所暗示的。这里考察了20世纪和21世纪初丰富的史学。

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JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC HISTORY-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of the Early Republic is a quarterly journal committed to publishing the best scholarship on the history and culture of the United States in the years of the early republic (1776–1861). JER is published for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. SHEAR membership includes an annual subscription to the journal.