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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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John Ashworth |
ISBN: | 0521479940 9780521479943 0521474876 9780521474870 9780521885928 0521885922 9780521713696 0521713692 |
OCLC Number: | 32166515 |
Description: | 2 volumes (xii, 520; ix, 683 pages) ; 23 cm |
Contents: | v. 1. Commerce and compromise, 1820-1850 -- v. 2. The coming of the Civil War, 1850-1861. |
Responsibility: | John Ashworth. |
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' ... a significant contribution to our critical understanding of the structure of the ante-bellum Southern USA ... well written and researched an would be of general interest to anyone wishing to become acquainted with issues of the Ante-bellum South'. Capital & Class "...a different and exciting insight into the crucial role of enslaved African Americans as active participants in historical change. This study is highly recommended reading for Old South and African American scholars seeking to understand the relationship between American slave resistance, northern wage labor ideology, and the development of nineteenth-century capitalism." The North Carolina Historical Review "To undertake a new study of the causes of the American Civil War is audacious, but John Ashworth has brought off a truly impressive achievement. Whether discussing the ideology of abolitionism, the impact of capitalism on social life, or the social origins of the slavery controversy, Ashworth offers original insights in a field already plowed by many historians." Eric Foner, Columbia University "...an ambitious and imaginative model of Civil war causality....make[s] a compelling case for Ashworth's Marxist style of cultural history, as well as for a more complex understanding of why the Union fell apart with Lincoln's election." Seth Rockman, Maryland Historical Magazine "...historical narratives flow well because of Professor Ashworth's competent writing style." Civil War History "Ashworth's ^Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics is a major contribution to American antebellum historiography." Robert E. Wright, Southern Historian "John Ashworth's ^Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic is an attractive mixture of old-fashioned history with new scholarly trends....In addition to his skillful summaries of a wide range of litertaure, Ashworth has added to his own impressive work on Jacksonian ideology by linking the controversies of earlier decades to the crisis that exploded in civil war. When the second volume of this work is completed Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics will stand as the most comprehensive work to have traced the ideological flowerings of the 1850's to their Jeffersonian roots." Bill Cecil-Fronsman, H-Net Reviews "...Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics is an engaging work that should force a re-examination of antebellum political history. Even those who disagree with elements of Ashworth's analysis or with his premises will find the volume a useful statement of a contradictory position. It is a major work with which all historians in the field will have to reckon." Bill Cecil-Fronsman, H-Net Reviews "...the broad outlines of Ashworth's work are consistent with the bulk of modern scholarship and resonate well with the contemporary evidence. His concluding volume will be eagerly awaited." Harry L. Watson, Georgia Historical Quarterly Read more...


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