This book describes the impact of the American Civil War on the development of central state authority in the late nineteenth century. The author contends that intense competition for control of the national political economy between the free North and slave South produced secession, which in turn spawned the formation of two new states, a market-oriented northern Union and a southern Confederacy in which government controls on the economy were much more important. During the Civil War, the American state both expanded and became the agent of northern economic development. After the war ended, however, tension within the Republican coalition led to the abandonment of Reconstruction and to the return of former Confederates to political power throughout the South. As a result, American state expansion ground to a halt during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book makes a major contribution to the understanding of the causes and consequences of the Civil War and the legacy of the war in the twentieth century.
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The South, which has suffered most in its devoted defense of tradition, naturally offers me examples for consideration; but this is not a book about the South as such.
In this fascinating look at Union soldiers' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals new connections between the collapse of the Confederate prison system, the large-scale escape of Union soldiers, and ...
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Political Science I n this provocative book , Benjamin Ginsberg examines the cycle of Jewish success and anti - Semitic attack throughout the history of the Diaspora , with a concentrated focus on the " special case " of America .
At Northwestern, Eric Sundquist provided a one-year leave from teaching that jumpstarted research for the book; at Penn, Rebecca Bushnell provided another that allowed me to finish the writing. Amy Gutmann, President of the University ...
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