V. 1. Commerce And Compromise, 1820-1850.} Slavery, Capitalism, And Politics In The Antebellum Republic: Volume 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820 1850 - Softcover

Ashworth, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521479940 ISBN 13: 9780521479943

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

This is the first of a two-volume treatment of slavery, capitalism and politics in the forty years before the Civil War. It is both a Marxist reinterpretation of American political and economic development and a synthesis of existing scholarship on the economics of slavery, the origins of abolitionism, the proslavery argument and the second party system.

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' ... a significant contribution to our critical understanding of the structure of the ante-bellum Southern USA ... well written and researched an would be of general interest to anyone wishing to become acquainted with issues of the Ante-bellum South'. Capital & Class

Reseña del editor:

The Civil War should be seen as America's 'bourgeois revolution'. So argues Dr John Ashworth in this novel reinterpretation, from a Marxist perspective, of American political and economic development in the forty years before the Civil War. This book, the first of a two-volume treatment of slavery, capitalism and politics, locates the political struggles of the antebellum period in the international context of the dismantling of unfree labor systems. With its sequel, the volume will demonstrate that the conflict resulted from differences between capitalist and slave modes of production. With a careful synthesis of existing scholarship on the economics of slavery, the origins of abolitionism, the proslavery argument and the second party system, Ashworth maintains that the origins of the American Civil War are best understood in terms derived from Marxism.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521479940
• ISBN 13: 9780521479943
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 536