Steve Fraser

Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property (eBook, ePUB)

Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In popular retellings of American history, capitalism generally doesn't feature much as part of the founding or development of the nation. Instead, it is alluded to in figurative terms as opportunity, entrepreneurial vigor, material abundance, and the seven-league boots of manifest destiny.
?In this collection of essays, Steve Fraser, the preeminent historian of American capitalism, sets the record straight, rewriting the arc of the American saga with class conflict center stage and mounting a serious challenge to the consoling fantasy of American exceptionalism. From the colonial era to Trump, Fraser recovers the repressed history of debtors' prisons and disaster capitalism, of confidence men and the reserve armies of the unemployed. In language that is dynamic and compelling, he demonstrates that class is a fundamental feature of American political life and provides essential intellectual tools for a shrew reading of American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781788736718
• Artikelnr.: 57447510

Autorenporträt

Steve Fraser is a historian, writer, and editor. His research and writing have pursued two main lines of inquiry: labor history and the history of American capitalism.

Rezensionen

"A spirited collection by an erudite and penetrating essayist. Fraser is an analyst of the culture of late capitalism and, among other things, he demonstrates with impressive clarity the connections between the economic changes we call neoliberalism and the psycho-cultural dramas generated by the siren song of faux populism." FRANCES FOX PIVEN, AUTHOR OF POOR PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS