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The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877

The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877

Hardcover

Business GeneralEconomicsCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 9004201041
ISBN13: 9789004201040
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 21 2011
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
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.

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Civil War Period (1850-1877)