Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War

By Kathryn Hadley | Posted 28th January 2009, 13:20

Marc Egnal (Hill and Wang)

A reinterpretation of the American Civil War from the 1820s through Reconstruction, which moves beyond the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over moral principles, to argue that economics was instead the main factor that moved the country to war.

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