The significance of the American Revolution has generally been downplayed in accounts of the rise of capitalism in the United States, especially those undertaken from a critical perspective. New approaches to the history of capitalism, however, have emphasised the centrality of the state. This article argues that re‐centring the state's role in the history of capitalism should return attention to the significant restructuring of the American state that occurred during and as a result of the revolution. At the same time, it argues that this restructuring cannot be understood historically outside the context of class‐formation of which it was a part. Revolution reshaped the new nation's capitalist class, in the near term, much more than it did the labouring classes. This reconfiguration encompassed and went beyond the innovation of new political institutions. In the long‐run it helped to underpin the particular development of capitalism in the United States.

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美国资本主义历史上的阶级，国家与革命

由于美国资本主义的崛起，特别是从批判性观点出发，美国革命的重要性通常被低估了。然而，资本主义历史的新方法强调了国家的中心地位。本文认为，在资本主义历史上重新确立国家的角色应该使人们重新关注革命期间和革命之后对美国国家的重大重组。同时，它认为这种重组不能从历史上理解，除非它是其中的一部分。革命在短期内重塑了新国家的资本主义阶级，远远超过了工人阶级。这种重新配置涵盖并超越了新的政治制度的创新。从长远来看，它有助于巩固美国资本主义的特殊发展。