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Index
Cover
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Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Loomis Gang’s Market Revolution
Chapter 2. The Promiscuous Economy: Cultural and Commercial Geographies of Secondhand in the Antebellum City
Chapter 3. The Era of Shinplasters: Making Sense of Unregulated Paper Money
Chapter 4. The Rag Race: Jewish Secondhand Clothing Dealers in England and America
Chapter 5. Lickspittles and Land Sharks: The Immigrant Exploitation Business in Antebellum New York
Chapter 6. “The World Is But One Vast Mock Auction”: Fraud and Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century America
Chapter 7. Underground on the High Seas: Commerce, Character, and Complicity in the Illegal Slave Trade
Chapter 8. “Some Rascally Business”: Thieving Slaves, Unscrupulous Whites, and Charleston’s Illicit Waterfront Trade
Chapter 9. Selling Sex and Intimacy in the City: The Changing Business of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore
Chapter 10. Economies of Print in the Nineteenth-Century City
Chapter 11. Back Number Budd: An African American Pioneer in the Old Newspaper and Information Management Business
Conclusion
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
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