Introduction: an American revolutionary tradition / Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith -- The agrarian context of American capitalist development / Christopher Clark -- The mortgage worked the hardest: the fate of landed independence in nineteenth-century America / Jonathan Levy -- Toxic debt,...

The political crisis of the American state: the unsustainable state in a time of unraveling / Lawrence R. Jacobs, Desmond King -- Is inequality a threat to democracy? / John Ferejohn -- The resilient power of the states across the long nineteenth century: an inquiry into a pattern of American...