The Formative Period of American Capitalism: A Materialist Interpretation, Daniel Gaido, London: Routledge, 2006
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Daniel Gaido’s The Formative Period of American Capitalism provides a thorough accounting of classical Marxist writing on the history of US capitalism. He combines insights from the classical Marxist and US Trotskyist traditions with an engagement with a selection of recent historical research to produce a provocative interpretation of the origins and rise of capitalism in the US. However, his failure to critically interrogate the classical Marxist and US Trotskyist traditions on the US or engage with the growing historical research on the origins and trajectory of US capitalism weakens his contribution.
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Brenner Robert P. Beir A.L. , Cannadine David & Rosenheim James M. ‘Bourgeois Revolutions and Transition to Capitalism’ The First Modern Society 1989 Cambridge Cambridge University Press
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Love Eric T.L. Race Over Empire: Racism and US Imperialism, 1865–1900 2003 Chapel Hill, NC. University of North Carolina Press
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Post Charles The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620–1877, Historical Materialism 2011 Book Series, Leiden Brill
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Love 2003; Fry 2002, Hunt 1987, LaFeber 1993.
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See Post 2011, Chapter 2, for a critical appreciation of this literature.
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The following summarises Post 2011, Chapters 2 and 4.
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Kautsky 1988, Part I; Lenin 1974.
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Brenner 1989.
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Brenner 1985, pp. 46–54.
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Post 2011, Chapter 2.
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The Formative Period of American Capitalism: A Materialist Interpretation, Daniel Gaido, London: Routledge, 2006
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Daniel Gaido’s The Formative Period of American Capitalism provides a thorough accounting of classical Marxist writing on the history of US capitalism. He combines insights from the classical Marxist and US Trotskyist traditions with an engagement with a selection of recent historical research to produce a provocative interpretation of the origins and rise of capitalism in the US. However, his failure to critically interrogate the classical Marxist and US Trotskyist traditions on the US or engage with the growing historical research on the origins and trajectory of US capitalism weakens his contribution.
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