Broad interpretations of a period, such as Charles Sellers has written, are comparatively rare, and it is a pleasure to read one as lively, provocative and conceptually rich as this. The Market Revolution skillfully works an analysis of early 19th-century economic, social and cultural change into a more traditional account of the origins and evolution of Jacksonian politics. For years scholars have been urged to "put the politics back into social history." Sellers has done the ...