This book synthesizes Marxian theory with the existing historical literature to produce a new analysis of the origins of capitalism in the US and the social roots of the US Civil War.
This book synthesizes Marxian theory with the existing historical literature to produce a new analysis of the origins of capitalism in the US and the social roots of the US Civil War.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Charles Post, Ph. D. (1983) in Sociology, SUNY-Binghamton, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY. He has published in New Left Review, Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Agrarian Change, Against the Current and Historical Materialism.
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Foreword by Ellen Meiksins Wood Introduction 1. The American Road to Capitalism i. Plantation-slavery ii. Agrarian petty-commodity production iii. Capitalist manufacture and industry iv. Conclusion: the Civil War 2. The Agrarian Origins of US Capitalism: The Transformation of the Northern Countryside before the Civil War i. Rural class-structure in the North before the Civil War ii. Debating the transformation of northern agriculture iii. The transformation of the northern countryside, c. 1776-1861 3. Plantation-Slavery and Economic Development in the Antebellum Southern United States i. The 'planter-capitalism' model ii. The 'non-bourgeois civilisation' model iii. Class-structure and economic development in the antebellum-South 4. Agrarian Class-Structure and Economic Development in Colonial British North America: The Place of the American Revolution in the Origins of US Capitalism i. The commercialisation-staples model ii. The demographic-frontier model iii. Agrarian social-property relations in colonial British North America iv. Colonial economic development, the American Revolution, and the development of capitalism in the US, 1776-1861 5. Social-Property Relations, Class-Conflict and the Origins of the US Civil War: Toward a New Social Interpretation i. Ashworth's social interpretation of the US Civil War ii. A critique of slavery, capitalism and politics in the antebellum-republic iii. Toward a new social interpretation of the US Civil War Conclusion: Democracy against Capitalism in the Post-Civil-War United States i. Democracy against capitalism in the North: radicalism, class-struggle and the rise of liberal democracy, 1863-77 ii. Democracy against capitalism in the South: the rise and fall of peasant-citizenship, 1865-77 iii. The defeat of populism, 'Jim Crow' and the establishment of capitalist plantation-agriculture in the South, 1877-1900 References Index
Foreword by Ellen Meiksins Wood Introduction 1. The American Road to Capitalism i. Plantation-slavery ii. Agrarian petty-commodity production iii. Capitalist manufacture and industry iv. Conclusion: the Civil War 2. The Agrarian Origins of US Capitalism: The Transformation of the Northern Countryside before the Civil War i. Rural class-structure in the North before the Civil War ii. Debating the transformation of northern agriculture iii. The transformation of the northern countryside, c. 1776-1861 3. Plantation-Slavery and Economic Development in the Antebellum Southern United States i. The 'planter-capitalism' model ii. The 'non-bourgeois civilisation' model iii. Class-structure and economic development in the antebellum-South 4. Agrarian Class-Structure and Economic Development in Colonial British North America: The Place of the American Revolution in the Origins of US Capitalism i. The commercialisation-staples model ii. The demographic-frontier model iii. Agrarian social-property relations in colonial British North America iv. Colonial economic development, the American Revolution, and the development of capitalism in the US, 1776-1861 5. Social-Property Relations, Class-Conflict and the Origins of the US Civil War: Toward a New Social Interpretation i. Ashworth's social interpretation of the US Civil War ii. A critique of slavery, capitalism and politics in the antebellum-republic iii. Toward a new social interpretation of the US Civil War Conclusion: Democracy against Capitalism in the Post-Civil-War United States i. Democracy against capitalism in the North: radicalism, class-struggle and the rise of liberal democracy, 1863-77 ii. Democracy against capitalism in the South: the rise and fall of peasant-citizenship, 1865-77 iii. The defeat of populism, 'Jim Crow' and the establishment of capitalist plantation-agriculture in the South, 1877-1900 References Index
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