Modernizing a Slave Economy
The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation (Civil War America)
John Majewski
ISBN: | 9781469614915 |
Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Published: | 1 March, 2014 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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Modernizing a Slave Economy
The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation (Civil War America)
John Majewski
What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? The traditional view assumes that Confederate slave-based agrarianism went hand in hand with a natural hostility toward industry and commerce. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, John Majewski's analysis finds that secessionists strongly believed in industrial development and state-led modernization. He argues that Confederates' opposition to a strong central government was politically tied to their struggle against northern legislative dominance. Once the Confederacy was formed, those who had advocated states' rights in the national legislature in order to defend against northern political dominance quickly came to support centralized power and a strong executive for war making and nation building.
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