Description: This book covers US federal politics during the period 1865-1896. This was an exceptionally important phase of US history; one could describe the period as a revolutionary epoch, out of which a new regime and a new national self-consciousness emerged. Part of this was the complete hegemony of the industrial corporation, whose partisans took full advantage of the collapse of the South to seize control of the legal and fiduciary machinery of state. At the time Josephson was a muckraker, and heavily influenced by Marxian historical theory, albeit not a Marxist. (The difference is that "Marxian historical theory" refers to a theory that incorporates Marx's economic and class determinism, but which may also incorporate other influences--such as Freud or Max Weber. "Marxist" implies a commitment to the creation of a socialist state through violent overthrow and liquidation of the bourgeois class dictatorship.) Hence, Josephson's 1938 evisceration of monopoly corporate hegemony over the USA was informed by universal historical theories, rather than the usual split between "US history" and "the history of everyone else." To an American reader, this makes for a jolt to the sensibilities. In the 1930's, universal historical theories were rare; it was common to equate "historicism" with Marxian or Spenglerian views. But while he might have approved of many of Marx's insights, Josephson was at heart dedicated to democratic precepts.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Author: Matthew Josephson
Region: North America
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace AND Company
Topic: Politics
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Unit Quantity: 1
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1938
