# Ep. 32: Individualism vs The Market Revolution **URL:** **By** Anthony Comegna **Published:** December 12, 2017 --- The colonial period was one of booming production and commerce, a deeply commercialized culture noted by its fashions, ever changing tastes, and values. Between 1815 and 1845, the world changed more dramatically than in any other previous 30-year period. Humanity began to break the food trap which had kept hundreds of generations barely producing enough to feed the living, keeping almost nothing to provide for the future. ## Further Reading: “[Rip Van Winkle](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sketchbook_of_Geoffrey_Crayon/Rip_Van_Winkle)” on WikiSource Feller, Daniel. “[The Market Revolution Ate My Homework](https://muse.jhu.edu/article/28911)” Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846. New York: Oxford University Press. 1991. Stokes \& Conway, eds. The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political, and Religious Expressions, 1800-1880. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. 1996. Martin, Scott. Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America, 1789-1860. Lanham, MD: Rowman \& Littlefield Publishers. 2005.