The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)
By Brian D. Schoen.
Description
In this fresh study Brian Schoen views the Deep South and its cotton industry from a global perspective, revisiting old assumptions and providing new insights into the region, the political history of the United States, and the causes of the Civil War. Schoen takes a unique and broad approach. Rather than seeing the Deep South and its planters as isolated from larger intellectual, economic, and political developments, he places the region firmly within them. In doing so, he demonstrates that the region’s prominence within the modern world―and not its opposition to it―indelibly shaped ...
ISBN(s)
1421404044, 9781421404042
