Explain the agrion roots of capitalism; i.e. when, why, how, etc. did it start in the countryside. Explain the legal transformations that made this possible. What were the imperatives of capital that propelled on the national stage? Explain the role of markets under the dictates of capital vs other modes of production. Why was England materially and ideologically fertile ground for the spread of the new political economy of capitalism?
Explain Zinn’s thesis and justifications in detail (five sentences at least). What were the similarities between Zinn and Wood (again thorough explanation)? Talk about the role of the state and of religion and the media in terms of expansion and geographic ‘rights’? How was the Lockean notion of improvement factored into this expansionism? Explain how both pro- and (most) anti war campaigners justified the expasion of the US. How did commercialization and privatization play a role?
https://libcom.org/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states-howard-zinn/8-we-take-nothing-by-conquest-thank-god
