UID:
almahu_9949701683902882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004201033
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2011
Content:
Most US historians assume that capitalism either "came in the first ships" or was the inevitable result of the expansion of the market. Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum US, most historians of the US Civil War have privileged autonomous political and ideological factors, ignoring the deep social roots of the conflict. This book applies theoretical insights derived from the debates on the transition to capitalism in Europe to the historical literature on the US to produce a new analysis of the origins of capitalism in the US, and the social roots of the Civil War. Winner of the Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award 2013 Short-listed for the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
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Introduction /
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Chapter One. The American Road To Capitalism /
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Chapter Two. The Agrarian Origins Of US-Capitalism: The Transformation Of The Northern Countryside Before The Civil War /
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Chapter Three. Plantation-Slavery And Economic Development In The Antebellum-Southern United States /
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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 /
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Chapter Five. Social-Property Relations, Class-Conflict And The Origins Of The US Civil War: Toward A New Social Interpretation /
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Conclusion Democracy Against Capitalism In The Post-Civil-War United States /
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References /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
American road to ISBN 9789004201040 (hardback : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004201041 (hardback : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004201033 (electronic book)
Language:
English
