Past Imperfect: Alternative Essays in American History. from reconstruction to the presentBlanche Wiesen Cook, Alice Kessler-Harris, Ronald Radosh Knopf, 1973 - 352 pages |
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... capitalism was finding it necessary to " spread out and fight for markets , " and capitalism had to expand in order to survive . " The capitalist class needs markets . It needs them because it has on hand more goods than the people can ...
... capitalism was finding it necessary to " spread out and fight for markets , " and capitalism had to expand in order to survive . " The capitalist class needs markets . It needs them because it has on hand more goods than the people can ...
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... capitalism ; it embraces the highest morality . The strength and spread of morality appear as the function of the strength and spread of capitalism . Historians , however , disregarding the imperatives of modern capitalism , while ...
... capitalism ; it embraces the highest morality . The strength and spread of morality appear as the function of the strength and spread of capitalism . Historians , however , disregarding the imperatives of modern capitalism , while ...
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... capitalists is a political struggle . ' Marx's theory of competitive capitalism furnished the basis of this perspect- ive . According to Marx , the accumulation of capital ( reinvestment of profit to expand production ) meant and ...
... capitalists is a political struggle . ' Marx's theory of competitive capitalism furnished the basis of this perspect- ive . According to Marx , the accumulation of capital ( reinvestment of profit to expand production ) meant and ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Origins of American Imperialism | 65 |
The Seventh Power ERNEST R MAY 68 Why the United States Went | 92 |
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