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The second and concluding volume of Professor Ashworth's study of
American antebellum politics, this book offers an exciting new
interpretation of the origins of the Civil War. The volume deals
with the politics of the 1850s and with the plunge into civil war.
Professor Ashworth offers a new way of understanding the conflict
between North and South and shows how northern free labor
increasingly came into conflict with southern slavery as a result
of both changes in the northern economy and the structural
weaknesses of slavery.
The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861 analyses the political climate in
the years leading up to the American Civil War, offering for
students and general readers a clear, chronological account of the
sectional conflict and the beginning of the Civil War. Emerging
from the tumultuous political events of the 1840s and 1850s, the
Civil War was caused by the maturing of the North and South's
separate, distinctive forms of social organisation and their
resulting ideologies. John Ashworth emphasises factors often
overlooked in explanations of the war, including the resistance of
slaves in the South and the growth of wage labour in the North.
Ashworth acquaints readers with modern writings on the period,
providing a new interpretation of the American Civil War's causes.
The second and concluding volume of Professor Ashworth's study of
American antebellum politics, this book offers an exciting new
interpretation of the origins of the Civil War. The volume deals
with the politics of the 1850s and with the plunge into civil war.
Professor Ashworth offers a new way of understanding the conflict
between North and South and shows how northern free labor
increasingly came into conflict with southern slavery as a result
of both changes in the northern economy and the structural
weaknesses of slavery.
This is the first of a two-volume treatment of slavery, capitalism and politics in the forty years before the Civil War. It is both a novel reinterpretation, from a Marxist perspective, of American political and economic development and a synthesis of existing scholarship on the economics of slavery, the origins of abolitionism, the proslavery argument and the second party system. With its sequel, this book will locate the political struggles of the antebellum period in the international context of the dismantling of unfree labor systems. It will also show that the Civil War should be seen as America's "bourgeois revolution."
This is a paperback edition of a book originally published in hard
covers by the Royal Historical Society.
The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861 analyses the political climate in
the years leading up to the American Civil War, offering for
students and general readers a clear, chronological account of the
sectional conflict and the beginning of the Civil War. Emerging
from the tumultuous political events of the 1840s and 1850s, the
Civil War was caused by the maturing of the North and South's
separate, distinctive forms of social organisation and their
resulting ideologies. John Ashworth emphasises factors often
overlooked in explanations of the war, including the resistance of
slaves in the South and the growth of wage labour in the North.
Ashworth acquaints readers with modern writings on the period,
providing a new interpretation of the American Civil War's causes.
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++++ Walks In Canaan 2 John Ashworth Tubbs and Brook, 1869
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This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates
among historians in recent years. The center of controversy is the
emergence of the antislavery movement in the United States and
Britain and the relation of capitalism to this development. The
essays delve beyond these issues, however, to raise a deeper
question of historical interpretation: What are the relations
between consciousness, moral action, and social change? The debate
illustrates that concepts common in historical practice are not so
stable as we have thought them to be. It is about concepts as much
as evidence, about the need for clarity in using the tools of
contemporary historical practice. The participating historians are
scholars of great distinction. Beginning with an essay published in
the American Historical Review (AHR), Thomas L. Haskell challenged
the interpretive framework of David Brion Davis's celebrated study,
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution. The AHR
subsequently published responses by Davis and by John Ashworth, as
well as a rejoinder by Haskell. The AHR essays and the relevant
portions of Davis's book are reprinted here. In addition, there are
two new essays by Davis and Ashworth and a general consideration of
the subject by Thomas Bender. This is a highly disciplined,
insightful presentation of a major controversy in historical
interpretation that will expand the debate into new realms.
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