Slavery, Capitalism & Politics v1: Volume 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820 1850 - Brossura

John Ashworth

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ISBN 10: 0521479940 ISBN 13: 9780521479943

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Riassunto

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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' ... 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

Descrizione del libro:

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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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0521479940
• ISBN 13: 9780521479943
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 100