Author: John Ashworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521474876
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
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.
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850
Author: John Ashworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521474876
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521474876
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
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.
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic
Author: John Ashworth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511394010
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511394010
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 2, The Coming of the Civil War, 1850-1861
Author: John Ashworth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521713696
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This book asks why the United States experienced a civil war in 1861 and analyses the descent into war in the final decade of peace. The book systematically surveys southern extremists, Republicans, Democrats, Whigs, temperance advocates and Know Nothings. It advances a new and unique explanation of the origins of the Civil War, the most important event in the history of the most powerful country in the world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521713696
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This book asks why the United States experienced a civil war in 1861 and analyses the descent into war in the final decade of peace. The book systematically surveys southern extremists, Republicans, Democrats, Whigs, temperance advocates and Know Nothings. It advances a new and unique explanation of the origins of the Civil War, the most important event in the history of the most powerful country in the world.
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic
Author: John Ashworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
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.
The Monied Metropolis
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524100
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of nineteenth-century New York City's powerful economic elite.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524100
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of nineteenth-century New York City's powerful economic elite.
The Coming of the Civil War
Author: Avery Craven
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226118940
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A stimulating and profound analysis of the factors which brought a nation into war with itself.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226118940
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A stimulating and profound analysis of the factors which brought a nation into war with itself.
Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 2, The Coming of the Civil War, 1850-1861
Author: John Ashworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521885922
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Publisher description for Slavery, capitalism, and politics in the antebellum Republic / John Ashworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521885922
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Publisher description for Slavery, capitalism, and politics in the antebellum Republic / John Ashworth
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic
Clash of Extremes
Author: Marc Egnal
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 9781429943895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between 1820 and 1850, patterns of trade and production drew the North and South together and allowed sectional leaders to broker a series of compromises. After midcentury, however, all that changed as the rise of the Great Lakes economy reoriented Northern trade along east-west lines. Meanwhile, in the South, soil exhaustion, concerns about the country's westward expansion, and growing ties between the Upper South and the free states led many cotton planters to contemplate secession. The war that ensued was truly a "clash of extremes." Sweeping from the 1820s through Reconstruction and filled with colorful portraits of leading individuals, Clash of Extremes emphasizes economics while giving careful consideration to social conflicts, ideology, and the rise of the antislavery movement. The result is a bold reinterpretation that will challenge the way we think about the Civil War.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 9781429943895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between 1820 and 1850, patterns of trade and production drew the North and South together and allowed sectional leaders to broker a series of compromises. After midcentury, however, all that changed as the rise of the Great Lakes economy reoriented Northern trade along east-west lines. Meanwhile, in the South, soil exhaustion, concerns about the country's westward expansion, and growing ties between the Upper South and the free states led many cotton planters to contemplate secession. The war that ensued was truly a "clash of extremes." Sweeping from the 1820s through Reconstruction and filled with colorful portraits of leading individuals, Clash of Extremes emphasizes economics while giving careful consideration to social conflicts, ideology, and the rise of the antislavery movement. The result is a bold reinterpretation that will challenge the way we think about the Civil War.
America's Great Debate
Author: Fergus M. Bordewich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439124612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Chronicles the 1850s appeals of Western territories to join the Union as slave or free states, profiling period balances in the Senate, Henry Clay's attempts at compromise, and the border crisis between New Mexico and Texas.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439124612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Chronicles the 1850s appeals of Western territories to join the Union as slave or free states, profiling period balances in the Senate, Henry Clay's attempts at compromise, and the border crisis between New Mexico and Texas.