Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 2, The Coming of the Civil War, 1850–1861

by JohnAshworth (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $175.05

  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.

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  Paperback
  1996

  $22.23

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $38.75

  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.