| Previews | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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While the story of antebellum America's capitalist development has most commonly centered on the urban and industrial transformation of the North, Joshua D. Rothman argues that the booming southwestern cotton economy exposed the anxieties and tensions of the era in their most acute forms. Examining the 1835 hanging of five supposed professional gamblers in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Rothman suggests that qualms about the morality of participating in a speculative market economy might have been eased through violence as much as through religious revivals and reform activities. In so doing, he calls for a rethinking of our understandings of regionalism, class development, and the market revolution in pre–Civil War America.

Many historical narratives of the erosion of the New Deal liberal-regulatory order and the rise of the Right focus on post-1964 racial and cultural tensions. In contrast, . . .

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