Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx in Dialogue - Print on Demand

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.

Product details

• Authors: Allan Kulikoff, Kulikoff Allan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9780190844646
• ISBN: 978-0-19-084464-6
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Dialogues in History; Dialogues in History
• Subjects: 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