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Yankee Leviathan : The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
Yankee Leviathan The Origins of Central State Authority in America 18591877
Author: Richard Franklin Bensel
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 marke...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521391368
ISBN-10: 0521391369
Publication Date: 1/25/1991
Pages: 464
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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