Slavery Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic or Fire and Emergency Service Administration

Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850

Author: John Ashworth

This is the first of a two-volume treatment of slavery, capitalism and politics in the forty years before the Civil War. It is both a novel reinterpretation, from a Marxist perspective, of American political and economic development and a synthesis of existing scholarship on the economics of slavery, the origins of abolitionism, the proslavery argument and the second party system. With its sequel, this book will locate the political struggles of the antebellum period in the international context of the dismantling of unfree labor systems. It will also show that the Civil War should be seen as America's "bourgeois revolution."

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Eric Foner
To undertake a new study of the causes of the American Civil War is audacious, but John Ashworth has brought off a truly impressive achievement. Whether discussing the ideology of abolitionism, the impact of capitalism on social life, or the social origins of the slavery controversy, Ashworth offers original insights in a field already ploughed by many historians.
—(Eric Foner, Columbia University)

Table of Contents:

Context;

1. Slavery, Sectionalism and the Jeffersonian Tradition;
2. Free Labor, Slave Labor, Wage Labor;

Part I. Slavery Versus Capitalism:
3. Abolitionism;
4. The Proslavery Argument: Dilemmas of the Master Class;

Part II. the Second Party System:
5. Whigs and Democrats;
6. Slavery, Economics and Party Politics, 1836-1850; Conclusion:

Part III. Economic Development, Class Conflict and american Politics, 1820-1850.

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Fire and Emergency Service Administration: Management and Leadership Practices

Author: L Charles Smeby

Fire and Emergency Services Administration: Management and Leadership Practices provides a comprehensive overview to prepare students to become leaders in the Fire, EMS, and Emergency Preparedness fields. With an emphasis on organizational and leadership tools for officers, managers, and administrators, this essential resource will offer valuable insight and understanding of the highly technical realm of fire and emergency services. Modeled after the Advanced Fire Administration course in the National Fire Academy's Degrees at a Distance Program, this text builds solid leadership skills.