Yankee Leviathan The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877

Name: Yankee Leviathan The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
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ISBN: 9780521398176

ISBN-10: 0521398177

ISBN-13: 9780521398176

Edition: 1990

Authors: Richard Franklin Bensel

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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…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/25/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 468
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English