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| | Robin Blackburn |
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| | Date | | Nov 11, 2009 |
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| | Time | | 4:00 pm
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| | Location | | 3rd Floor, Levis Faculty Center |
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| | Sponsor | | Department of History |
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| | Contact | | Bruce Levine |
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| | E-Mail | | blevine3@illinois.edu |
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| | Phone | | 333-3835 |
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| | Event type | | Lecture |
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| | Views | | 532 |
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| Robin Blackburn looks at the interpretation of the US Civil War offered by Karl Marx and his criticism of those like The Economist and the London Times who saw it as a conflict essentially focussed on economic issues like the tariff. Marx helped to shape a distinctively German American understanding. He drafted the International Working Mens Association address to Lincoln on the occasion of his re-election and received an indirect response from the president via the US ambassador in London. The lecture will look at the importance of different concepts of unrequited labour in the thinking of Marx and Lincoln and at the fate of these ideas in the period of Reconstruction. |
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