Screen LibraryClash of extremes：the economic origins of the Civil War
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| Published: |
Hill and Wang,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 416 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780809095360 (hardcover : alk. paper) 080909536X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K712 |
| CLC: | K712.43 |
| Call Number: | K712.43/E317 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-398) and index. Foundations -- Rich man, poor man -- Deal making -- Rise of the lake economy -- The campaign against slavery -- States' rights divides the Deep South -- Transformation of the lower states and upper South -- Origins of the Republican Party, 1854-56 -- Tr "Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Mare Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor. moved the country to war in 1861." "Sweeping from the 1820s through Reco |