Bøger af Allan Kulikoff

Traces the rural origins and growth of capitalism in America, challenging earlier studies and aiming to chart a new course for future history and economics studies. Kulikoff argues that long before the explosive growth of cities and big factories, capitalism in the countryside changes society.

An interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, it tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, and analyzes the growth of markets.

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.

Provides a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building on archival research in Maryland and Virginia, Allan Kulikoff provides the most comprehensive study to date of changing social relations - among both blacks and whites - in the eighteenth-century American South.