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The American road to capitalism : studies in class-structure, economic development, and political conflict, 1620-1877 / by Charles Post ; with a foreword by Ellen Meiksins Wood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Post, Charles.
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; 28.
- Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Economic conditions--17th century.
- United States.
- United States--Economic policy.
- United States--Social conditions--17th century.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States--History.
- United States--Economic conditions--18th century.
- United States--Economic conditions--19th century.
- United States--Social conditions--18th century.
- United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The American road to capitalism
- The agrarian origins of US capitalism : the transformation of the Northern countryside before the Civil War
- Plantation-slavery and economic development in the antebellum southern United States
- Agrarian class-structure and economic development in colonial British North America : the place of the American revolution in the origins of US capitalism
- Social-property relations, class-connfict, and the origins of the US Civil War : toward a new social interpretation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-12078-X
- 9786613120786
- 90-04-20103-3
- OCLC:
- 729738854
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004201040.i-298 DOI
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