The American Civil War: A Reply to Critics

Historical Materialism 21 (3):87-108 (2013)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This essay replies to critics of my earlier piece in Historical Materialism which looked at the origins of the American Civil War. The essay re-emphasises the importance of the shift to wage labour in the North, it re-asserts the need to incorporate slave resistance as a key factor in any causal account of the sectional conflict, and it argues that the ultimate northern victory in that conflict should be seen as constituting a ‘bourgeois revolution’. It engages specifically with the criticisms and some of the alternative interpretations offered by Charles Post, Eric Foner and Neil Davidson.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,593

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Analytics

Added to PP
2014-02-16

Downloads
27 (#506,730)

6 months
2 (#668,348)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?Neil Davidson - 2005 - Historical Materialism 13 (3):3-33.
How revolutionary were the bourgeois revolutions?Neil Davidson - 2005 - Historical Materialism 13 (3):3-54.
The Civil War and Slavery: A Response.Eric Foner - 2011 - Historical Materialism 19 (4):199-205.

Add more references