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.

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...

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Superior document:Historical materialism book series, 28
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Historical materialism book series ; 28.
Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of 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.