The American Road to Capitalism: Class, Development, and Conflict by Charles Post (2012 Historical Materialist Analysis)

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Unable to analyse the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the US, most US civil war historians have ignored its deep social roots. To search out these roots, Post applies the theoretical insights form the transition debate to the historical literature on the US to produce a new analysis on the origins of American capitalism.

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