Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815 – 1846. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Summary
As the title suggests, this book examines the impact of the market revolution and how it influenced patterns of behavior and belief, mobilized collective resource through government, and established capitalist hegemony over economy, politics, and culture. It was an economic and cultural revolution. Charles Sellers describes the Jacksonian Era as one driven by a '''tension between market and democratic forces''', rather than the traditional liberal ideology of seeing the two as twin sides of the same coin. He writes: “Contrary to liberal mythology, democracy was born in tension with capitalism, and not as its natural and legitimizing political expression.” The market revolution caused immense stress for Americans having to adapt to its new realities. He characterizes this showdown as in part a cultural one (infused with religious discourse) between '''"antinomian" democracy and an "arminian" middle-class bourgoise.''' The antinomian side emphasized New Light religious revivalism, communalism, and traditional patriarchal forces. The arminian bourgeois emphasized a more restrictive Moderate Light evangelicalism that stressed restraint, control, and bolstering the role of the market. However, as the Jacksonian era progressed the middle-class arminians learned to co-opt elements of antinomianism to extend their bourgeois cultural hegemony, with sexual restraint, contractual individualism, and material accumulation becoming the main measures of human progress. This tension emerged most forcefully in the aftermath of the War of 1812 and in particular with the twin crises of 1819: the financial panic and the Missouri Compromise. During the 1820s National Republicans advanced the cause of antinomian commerce, but their efforts were already under siege by the 1824 election. The '''tension reached its peak clash during Andrew Jackson's presidency''' in 1828, when Sellers argues that Jackson led a democratic insurgency against capitalism and achieved more in this struggle than it would ever have again - primarily through Bank Wars and money policy. Under Jackson, bottom-up democratization reached the peak of its control over monied interests. This dissolved, however, as Jackson's hard-money policies could only maintain their coherence at the federal level and left state-level democratic insurgencies vulnerable. With the Panic of 1837 and the Whigs' adoption of popular politicking in the 1840 election, the pendulum swung solidly back towards the capitalist bourgeois.

Example: Whigs coopted Jacksonian democracy: They wrapped entrepreneurial intent in democratic rhetoric. For example, Whigs attacked banks (democratic populism) less of subverting the use value ethos (workers argument) then for the exclusive charters that blocked equal access to commodity value competition.

See also: Christopher Clark, Scott Sandage, Joyce Boydston,