How America Became Capitalist

'At the heart of American capitalism is a history of empire. Starting from this powerful insight, James Parisot carefully investigates this history in its race, class, and gender dimensions. The result is a terrific contribution to current debates over the social history of capitalism in the U.S' -- David McNally, Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business, University of Houston 'Parisot's rich and lively analysis of the domestic history of US empire helps readers understand what it was about the development of US economic, social and political institutions that made the American state so central in the making of global capitalism' -- Leo Panitch, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, York University 'Utilizing the notion of 'empire' and focusing on the geographic expansion of commodity production and circulation across the North American continent, James Parisot's provocative thesis will be a focus of debate in years to come' -- Charles Post, City University of New York, author of 'The American Road to Capitalism' 'There is a relatively limited literature covering the entire course of the USA's transition to a capitalist society. In his concise but illuminating new book, James Parisot now provides such an account... particularly commendable is Parisot's focus throughout on the ways in which empire, race and gender have intersected in the history of US capitalism from the very beginning' -- Neil Davidson, author of 'How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions?'