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The "Better Angels" of Capitalism: Rhetoric, Narrative, and Moral Identity among Men of the American Upper Class

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Acknowledgments vii
Mapping the "Better Angels" of Capitalism: Space, Place, and Story in the Moral Economy of Wealth 1
Rhetoric, Narrative, and the "Better Angels" of Capitalism, 1
Emplacement and Emplotment in the Moral Economy of Wealth, 9
Story Spaces of Identity: Wealth, Power, and Narrativity in the Everyday 35
"It's Obvious": The Banal Truth of Wealth as Power in the Everyday, 37
Story, Space, and Moral Identity, 50
Story Spaces of the Ethical Subject of Sovereign Individuality, 64
The Mastering of Fortune: Machiavelli, Masculinity, and the Subject of Virtù 87
The Machiavellian Uncanny: Shadows of Fortune and Virtue in a History of the Present, 88
Taming the Goddess: Fate, Fortune, and the Renaissance Social Imaginary, 103
Founders and Citizens: Machiavelli and the Narrative of Fortune and Virtue, 119
How Much Is Enough? Counting and Accounting for Money in the Market as Moral Space 135
Money, Property, and Identity: Tracking the Subject of Sovereign Individuality from Florence to Edinburgh, 136
Conjuring Homo Mercator: Money, Virtue, and Commercial Society, 142
A Visitation with the "Better Angels" of the Market: Money, Liquidity, and Desire, 152
Stewards, Citizens, and Entrepreneurs: Discourses of Philanthropy as Manly Vocation 173
Benevolence, Beneficence, and Beyond: Crossing the Atlantic to the Topos of Philanthropy, 173
The Grace of Wealth and the Duty of Fortune: Brahmin Boston and the Philanthropic Vocation of the Steward-Citizen, 183
An Empire of Beneficence: Andrew Carnegie and the Philanthropic Vocation of the Steward-Entrepreneur, 218
The "Better Angels" in the End 253
References 263
Index 279
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