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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Richard Franklin Bensel |
ISBN: | 0521391369 9780521391368 0521398177 9780521398176 |
OCLC Number: | 21407438 |
Description: | xi, 452 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Modernization, southern separatism, and state formation in American political development -- The political economy of secession and civil war -- War mobilization and state formation in the northern Union and southern Confederacy -- Gold, greenbacks, and the political economy of finance capital after the Civil War -- Legislation, the Republican Party, and finance capital during Reconstruction -- State structure and Reconstruction : the political legacy of the Civil War -- Southern separatism and the class basis of American politics. |
Responsibility: | Richard Franklin Bensel. |
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"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 Read more...


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