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How the South Won the Civil War - Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (Hardcover)
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How the South Won the Civil War - Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R559
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In this provocative new work, Heather Cox Richardson argues that
while the North won the Civil War, ending slavery, oligarchy, and
giving the country a "new birth of freedom," the victory was
short-lived. Settlers from the East pushed into the West, where the
seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and
treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies. The Old
South found a new home in the West. Both depended on extractive
industries-cotton in the former and mining, cattle, and oil in the
latter-giving rise to a white ruling elite, one that thrived
despite the abolition of slavery, the assurances provided by the
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the economic opportunities
afforded by Western expansion. How the South Won the Civil War
traces the story of the American paradox, the competing claims of
equality and white domination that were woven into the nation's
fabric from the beginning. Who was the archetypal "new American"?
At the nation's founding it was Eastern "yeoman farmer,"
independent and freedom-loving, who had galvanized and symbolized
the Revolution. After the Civil War the mantle was taken up by the
cowboy, singlehandedly defending his land and his women against
"savages," and protecting his country from its own government. As
new states entered the Union in the late nineteenth century,
western and southern leaders found common ground. Resources,
including massive amounts of federal money, and migrants continued
to stream into the West during the New Deal and World War II.
"Movement Conservatives"-starting with Barry Goldwater-claimed to
embody cowboy individualism, working with Dixiecrats to renew the
ideology of the Confederacy. The "Southern strategy" worked. The
essence of the Old South never died and the fight for equality
endures.
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