Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic

by Nancy Beadie

• ISBN13: 9780521196284
• ISBN10: 0521196280
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book argues that schools were a driving force in the formation of social, political, and financial capital during the market revolution and capitalist transition of the early republican era. Grounded in an intensive study of schooling in the Genesee Valley region of upstate New York, it traces early sources of funding and support for education (including common schools and various forms of higher schooling) to their roots in different social and economic networks and trade and credit relations. It then interprets that story in the context of other major developments in early American social, political, and economic history, such as the shift from agricultural to non-agricultural production, the integration of rural economies into translocal capitalist markets, the organization of the Second Great Awakening, the transformation of patriarchy, the expansion of white male suffrage, the emergence of the Secondary American Party System, and the formation of the modern liberal state.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
List of Maps and Illustrations	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Education and Social Capital Formation
Introduction - The Place of Schooling in a Transforming Political Economy	p. 3
Creating Social Capital - Norms of School and Community Building	p. 18
A Matter of Trust - Neighbors and Strangers	p. 36
Discipline - Evangelicalism as an Educational Movement	p. 55
Bonding and Bridging - The Methodist Economy	p. 72
Development - Evangelicalism and Capital Formation	p. 89
Schools as Agencies of Politicization
Between Markets and the State - Venture Schools and Academies	p. 107
Political Economies of Schooling - Academies and Common Schools	p. 123
Education and Civic Engagement - Schools and Politics	p. 139
Diffusing Intelligence - Education and the Formation of the Liberal State	p. 158
Education and Coalition Building	p. 176
Denominational Politics and Institution Building	p. 193
Education and Economic Transformation
Education as an Object of Capital Investment	p. 215
Varieties of Trust - Education and Economic Competition	p. 233
Controlling Capital - Education and the Politics of Economic Change	p. 248
Success - Education and the Culture of the Market	p. 267
Panic - Education and the Discipline of the Market	p. 282
Friends - An Education in Trust	p. 301
Conclusion - Education and the Creation of Capital	p. 317
Appendix	p. 329
Index	p. 333
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