In this exciting new work, Scott Martin brings together cutting-edge scholarship and articles from diverse sources to explore the cultural dimensions of the market revolution in America. By reflecting on the reciprocal relationship between cultural and economic change, the work deepens our understanding of American society during the turbulent early nineteenth century.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Toward a Cultural History of the Market RevolutionChapter 2: The Market Revolution and Market Values in Antebellum Black Protest ThoughtChapter 3: A Cultural Frontier: Ethnicity and the Marketplace in Charlotte, Vermont, 1845¿1860Chapter 4: Native Americans, the Market Revolution, and Cultural Change: The Choctaw Cattle Economy, 1690¿1830Chapter 5: The "Sharper" Image: Yankee Peddlers, Southern Consumers, and the Market RevolutionChapter 6: "Well Bred Country People": Sociability, Social Networks, and the Creation of a Provincial Middle Class, 1820¿1860Chapter 7: "In the Sweat of Thy Brow": Education, Manual Labor, and the Market RevolutionChapter 8: "I Have Brought My Pig to a Fine Market": Animals, Their Exhibitors, and Market Culture in the Early RepublicChapter 9: Temperance Nostalgia, Market Anxiety, and the Reintegration of Community in T. S. Arthur's Ten Nights in a Bar-RoomChapter 10: Interpreting Metamora: Nationalism, Theater, and Jacksonian Indian Policy