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Title: Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850 by John Ashworth ISBN: 0-521-47994-0 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Summary: balanced study of the conflicts within the slave South
Comment: The emphasis here is upon the "class" tensions within the slave South and between the North with its "wage labor" and the South with its slave labor. Far too many historians in recent years have been afraid to use the concepts of "class" and "capitalism" for fear of being tainted with the brush of Marxism. But these are clearly terms and concepts the abolitionists and the pro-slavery thinkers themselves used in their attempts to make sense of their world. Ashworth does an admirable job of employing these concepts while avoiding the pitfalls of dogmatism and economic reductionism. He draws inspiration from Antonio Gramsci's concept of "hegemony" to provide his class and material analysis with a balance that emphasizes the complexities of human motivation.
The author clearly reveals the points at which the slave system was in inner conflict and shows how the southern attempts to provide an intellectual defense of slavery were doomed to fail because of the conflicts and tensions within the southern class system. He goes on to detail the ideology and the foundations of the Jacksonian Democrats, the Whig Party, and the Republican Party and in the process gives the reader a balanced perspective on the forces that led to the Civil War. This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in why the two sections of the country were so different and came to think of themselves as different peoples.
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Title: The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 by Heather Cox Richardson ISBN: 0674013662 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Telling the Truth About History by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob ISBN: 0393312860 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson ISBN: 0674005392 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 by Christopher Clark ISBN: 0801496934 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum by Tyler Anbinder ISBN: 0452283612 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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