Paperback. Short Listed for the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeUnable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum U.S., most historians of the US Civil War have ignored its deep social roots. To search out these roots, Post applies the theoretical insights from the transition debates to the historical literature on the U.S. to produce a new analysis of the origins of American capitalism. Most historians assume that American capitalism was either imported or the result of market expansion. Post proves otherwise. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: American Road To Capitalism, The: Studies In Class Structure, Economic Development And Political Conflict (Paperback)
Publisher: Haymarket Books, Chicago
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 160846198X
ISBN 13: 9781608461981
Binding: Paperback
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Short Listed for the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize

Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum U.S., most historians of the US Civil War have ignored its deep social roots. To search out these roots, Post applies the theoretical insights from the transition debates to the historical literature on the U.S. to produce a new analysis of the origins of American capitalism.

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CHARLES POST, Ph. D. (1983) in Sociology, SUNY-Binghamton, is 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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