Slavery, capitalism, and politics in the antebellum Republic
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
Print Book, English, 1995-2007
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1995-2007
History
2 volumes (xii, 520; ix, 683 pages) ; 23 cm
9780521479943, 9780521474870, 9780521885928, 9780521713696, 0521479940, 0521474876, 0521885922, 0521713692
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Context; 1. Slavery, Sectionalism and the Jeffersonian Tradition; 2. Free Labor, Slave Labor, Wage Labor; Part I. Slavery Versus Capitalism: 3. Abolitionism; 4. The Proslavery Argument: Dilemmas of the Master Class; Part II. the Second Party System: 5. Whigs and Democrats; 6. Slavery, Economics and Party Politics, 1836–1850; Conclusion: Part III. Economic Development, Class Conflict and american Politics, 1820–1850.
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