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Confederate Political Economy - Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist Nation (Hardcover)
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Confederate Political Economy - Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist Nation (Hardcover)
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
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In Confederate Political Economy, Michael Bonner suggests that the
Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state -- a society
that required all sectors of the economy to work for the national
interest, as defined by a partnership of industrial leaders and a
dominant government. As Bonner shows, the characteristics of the
Confederate States' political economy included modern
organisational methods that mirrored the economic landscape of
other late nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century
corporatist governments. Southern leaders, Bonner argues, were
slave-owning agricultural capitalists who sought a
counterrevolution against northern liberal capitalism. During
secession and as the war progressed, they built and reinforced
Confederate nationalism through specific centralized government
policies. Bolstered by the Confederate constitution, these policies
evolved into a political culture that allowed for immense executive
powers, facilitated an anti-party ideology, and subordinated
individual rights. In addition, the South's lack of industrial
capacity forced the Confederacy to pursue a curious manufacturing
policy that used both private companies and national ownership to
produce munitions. This symbiotic relationship was just one
component of the Confederacy's expedient corporatist state: other
wartime policies like conscription, the domestic passport system,
and management of southern railroads also exhibited unmistakable
corporatist characteristics. Bonner's probing research and new
comparative analysis expand our understanding of the complex
organisation and relationships in Confederate political and
economic culture during the Civil War.
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