Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820–1850 - Softcover

Ashworth, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521479940 ISBN 13: 9780521479943

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This is the first of a two-volume treatment of slavery, capitalism and politics in the forty years before the Civil War. It is both a novel reinterpretation, from a Marxist perspective, of American political and economic development and a synthesis of existing scholarship on the economics of slavery, the origins of abolitionism, the proslavery argument and the second party system. With its sequel, this book will locate the political struggles of the antebellum period in the international context of the dismantling of unfree labor systems. It will also show that the Civil War should be seen as America's "bourgeois revolution."

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Book Description:

The first volume of a two-volume account of slavery, capitalism and politics in the forty years before the Civil War is a novel reinterpretation, from a Marxist perspective, of American political and economic development as well as a synthesis of existing scholarship on slavery.

About the Author:

John Ashworth was born in Lancashire, England, and studied at the Universities of Lancaster and Oxford. He is currently Professor of American History in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. Professor Ashworth is the author of 'Agrarians' and 'Aristocrats': Party Political Ideology in the United States, 1837-1846, of Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 1: Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850 (both of which were published by Cambridge University Press), and of numerous articles and reviews in learned journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521479940
• ISBN 13: 9780521479943
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 536