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 The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620–1877

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xviii)   (681K)
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    • Contents
    • Foreword
    • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction (1-6)   (378K)
  • The American Road To Capitalism (7-36)   (437K)
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    • I. Plantation-Slavery
    • II. Agrarian Petty-Commodity Production
    • III. Capitalist Manufacture And Industry
    • IV. Conclusion: The Civil War
  • The Agrarian Origins Of US-Capitalism: The Transformation Of The Northern Countryside Before The Civil War (37-102)   (736K)
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    • I. Rural Class-Structure In The North Before The Civil War
    • II. Debating The Transformation Of Northern Agriculture
    • III. The Transformation Of The Northern Countryside, C. 1776–1861
  • Plantation-Slavery And Economic Development In The Antebellum-Southern United States (103-154)   (554K)
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    • I. The ‘Planter-Capitalism’ Model
    • II. The ‘Non-Bourgeois Civilisation’ Model
    • III. Class-Structure And Economic Development In The Antebellum-South
  • Agrarian Class-Structure And Economic Development In Colonial-British North America: The Place Of The American Revolution In The Origins Of US-Capitalism (155-194)   (903K)
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    • I. The Commercialisation-Staples Model
    • II. The Demographic-Frontier Model
    • III. Agrarian Social-Property Relations In Colonial-British North America
    • IV. Colonial Economic Development, The American Revolution, And The Development Of Capitalism In The Us, 1776–1861
  • Social-Property Relations, Class-Conflict And The Origins Of The US Civil War: Toward A New Social Interpretation (195-252)   (798K)
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    • I. Ashworth’s Social Interpretation Of The US Civil War
    • II. A Critique Of Slavery, Capitalism And Politics In The Antebellum Republic
    • III. Toward A New Social Interpretation Of The US Civil War
  • Conclusion Democracy Against Capitalism In The Post-Civil-War United States (253-278)   (620K)
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    • I. Democracy Against Capitalism In The North: Radicalism, Class-Struggle And The Rise Of Liberal Democracy, 1863–77
    • II. Democracy Against Capitalism In The South: The Rise And Fall Of Peasant-Citizenship, 1865–77
    • III. The Defeat Of Populism, ‘Jim Crow’ And The Establishment Of Capitalist Plantation-Agriculture In The South, 1877–1900
  • References (279-294)   (675K)
  • Index (295-298)   (333K)