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Yankee Leviathan - The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (Hardcover, New)
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Yankee Leviathan - The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (Hardcover, New)
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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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