Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx in Dialogue

Zusatztext This is a most imaginative and useful contribution to the study of the causes and consequences of the Civil War and to the debates on slavery, emancipation, and free labor. Counterposing the writings, speeches, and correspondence of two influential contemporaries Informationen zum Autor Allan Kulikoff is the Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Georgia. He is the author of several books, including The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism. Klappentext Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx might appear strange bedfellows, the president and the intellectual revolutionary. Yet they shared an abiding interest in labor, labor relations, and slavery. This volume puts the two of them in dialogue, using linked, short passages from their writings, and thereby uncovers their agreements and disagreements about this fundamental issue. Zusammenfassung Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx might appear strange bedfellows, the president and the intellectual revolutionary. Yet they shared an abiding interest in labor, labor relations, and slavery. This volume puts the two of them in dialogue, using linked, short passages from their writings, and thereby uncovers their agreements and disagreements about this fundamental issue. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Preface Acknowledgments Introduction The Corporate Lawyer and the Revolutionary The Documents: Chapter 1 Land and Opportunity in Antebellum America Chapter 2 Slavery as a Social System Chapter 3 Secession and the Civil War: Lincoln, Secession and the Border States Chapter 4 Slavery, Emancipation, and the Progress of the Civil War Chapter 5 Emancipation and Its Discontents Chapter 6 Marx and Lincoln on the Fruits of the Civil War Epilogue Marx and Lincoln after the Defeat of the Paris Commune Bibliographic Essay Notes Index

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• Authors: Allan Kulikoff, Allan (Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Pro Kulikoff, Allan (University of Georgia) Kulikoff, Kulikoff Allan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9780190210809
• ISBN: 978-0-19-021080-9
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Dialogues in History; Dialogues in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas