Michael ZakimTel Aviv UniversityMichael Zakim teaches history at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Ready-Made Democracy (Chicago, 2003), a political history of male dress in the American republic from 1760 to 1860, and of a study tentatively entitled Accounting for Capitalism (Chicago, forthcoming), which seeks to explain how the incessant flux of market exchange became the basis of social order in nineteenth century America. |