The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848-1876

Examining the social and intellectual collision of the American
reform tradition with immigrant Marxism during the Reconstruction
era, Timothy Messer-Kruse charts the rise and fall of the
International Workingman’s Association (IWA), the first
international socialist organization. He analyzes what attracted
American reformers — many of them veterans of antebellum crusades for abolition, women’s rights, and other radical causes — to the IWA, how their presence affected the course of the American ...