The Economic Origins of the Civil War
by
Marc Egnal
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861.
Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between...