![]() Sellers argues that this economic growth was counter to the semi-subsistence existence of many communities. And of course, like all scholarship, those views presented are shaped by the times in which the works was written, the extant historiography, the historian's own worldview, and a slew of other factors.įor example, looking at Howe, he is speaking to the older view advanced by Sellers, et al (and robustly maintained today by, among many others, Sean Wilentz) that the Jacksonian period should be seen as a 'market revolution,' where the change from a more agrarian economy to a more liberally-based market economy was brought about by a sort of corporate-government cooperation in infrastructure expansion. ![]() Like any giant synthesis, these works will shape an argument to the scholar's views. In general, I think they're fantastic works by well-respected scholars.
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