1st Edition

The Formative Period of American Capitalism A Materialist Interpretation

By Daniel Gaido Copyright 2007
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Applying certain Marxist categories of analysis to the study of American history, the central thesis of this outstanding book is that the main peculiarity of American historical development was the almost direct transition from a colonial to an imperialist economy. Expertly dealing with such topics as: * the American Revolution and the Civil War against the background of the European... Read more

Introduction   Settler Colonialism and the Bourgeois Revolutions    The American Path of Capitalist Development   Slavery, Sharecropping and White Supremacy   The Birth of Yankee Imperialism   The Origins of the American Labour Movement    Conclusion

Biography

Daniel Gaido