| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Canada and the United States

Jeffrey Sklansky. The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xiii, 313. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.

According to Jeffrey Sklansky, early Americans possessed a firm understanding of how property determined political, social, and economic life. As the nineteenth century wore on, and as the country lost its yeoman agrarian base, numerous political economists and social theorists rewrote the basics of economic thought to accommodate industrial capitalism. By the Progressive era, the importance of property and class in American political economy had been dropped in favor of an organic vision of people seeking their selves, their identities, their souls—hence the title of the work—in a society that had been integrated by an all-embracing market. . . .

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