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Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859 1877
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Cambridge University Press
- Binding
- TP
- EAN
- 9780521398176
- ISBN
- 0521398177
- Book Title
- Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Aut
- Manufacturer
- Cambridge University Press
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521398177
ISBN-13
9780521398176
eBay Product ID (ePID)
732005
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
468 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Yankee Leviathan : the Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
Publication Year
1991
Subject
United States / 19th Century, Constitutions, American Government / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
24.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
90-035458
Reviews
"Bensel's work is impressive because he keeps his eye on the interrelationship of two broad issues: state formation and political economy. These issues are now at the forefront of the best new writing on the history of American politics, and Bensel's manuscript definitely marks a step forward for a discussion now associated with the writings of Skocpol, Skowronek and others...The reader comes away from the book with a deepened understanding of how political structures evolved during the Civil War era, and how this evolution was related both to class relations and broad issues of political economy." Eric Foner, Columbia University, "Bensel's perspective on the political economy of sectionalism seems inexhaustible as a source of fresh insight into the struggles of the Civil War era. In Yankee Leviathan, the irresistable conflict of the 1850s is not simply resolved in the North's favor, it is transposed into the structure and operations of new state formation." Stephen Skowronek, Yale University
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
973.8
Table Of Content
Preface; 1. Modernization, southern separatism, and state formation in American political development; 2. The political economy of secession and civil war; 3. War mobilization and state formation in the northern Union and southern Confederacy; 4. Gold, greenbacks, and the political economy of finance capital after the Civil War; 5. Legislation, the Republican party, and finance capital during Reconstruction; 6. State structure and Reconstruction: the political legacy of the Civil War; 7. Southern separatism and the class basis of American politics; Index.
Synopsis
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., This book describes the impact of the American Civil War on the development of central state authority in the late nineteenth century. It 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.
LC Classification Number
JK231 .B46 1990
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