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Brian P. Luskey and Wendy A. Woloson (eds.), Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, £32.50/$49.95). Pp. 328. isbn978 0 8122 4689 6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2016

JOANNA COHEN*
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London

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References

1 Karl Polanyi, “Our Obsolete Market Mentality,” quoted in Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith, ed., Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012), 4. See also Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001).