Format:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004201033
Series Statement:
Historical Materialism Book Ser. v.28
Content:
This book synthesizes Marxian theory with the existing historical literature to produce a new analysis of the origins of capitalism in the US and the social roots of the US Civil War.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One The American Road to Capitalism -- I. Plantation-slavery -- Genovese and the 'irrationality' of slavery -- Plantations and markets -- II. Agrarian petty-commodity production -- Demythologising the family-farm -- III. Capitalist manufacture and industry -- The 'really revolutionary' path -- IV. Conclusion: the Civil War -- Chapter Two The Agrarian Origins of US-Capitalism: The Transformation of the Northern Countryside Before the Civil War -- I. Rural class-structure in the North before the Civil War -- II. Debating the transformation of Northern agriculture -- III. The transformation of the Northern countryside, c. 1776-1861 -- Chapter Three Plantation-Slavery and Economic Development in the Antebellum-Southern United States -- I. The 'planter-capitalism' model -- The plantation as capitalist enterprise -- Episodic labour-saving technical change in plantation-slavery -- Were slaves 'cheap labour'? -- Other non-capitalist 'anomalies' -- II. The 'non-bourgeois civilisation' model -- Slaves as 'recalcitrant' workers -- Skilled slave-labour -- Free wage-labourers as 'recalcitrant' workers -- III. Class-structure and economic development in the antebellum-South -- The master-slave social-property relation -- The labour-process and geographic expansion in tobacco- and cotton-cultivation -- Plantation self-sufficiency -- Plantation-slavery and the world-market -- Slavery and economic development in the US -- Chapter Four Agrarian Class-Structure and Economic Development in Colonial-British North America: The Place of the American Revolution in the Origins of US-Capitalism -- I. The commercialisation-staples model -- II. The demographic-frontier model -- III. Agrarian social-property relations in colonial-British North America -- Plantation-slavery in the southern colonies.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004201040
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004201040
Language:
English
