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By : Heather Cox Richardson
Book Synopsis :
Named one of The Washington Post 's 50 Notable Works of NonfictionWhile the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a new birth of freedom, Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and thereestablished a foothold. It was a natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies. The South and West equally depended on extractiveindustries-cotton in the former and mining, cattle, and oil in the latter-giving rise a new birth of white male oligarchy, despite the guarantees provided by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the economic opportunities afforded by expansion.To reveal why this happened, How the South Won the Civil War traces the story of the American .
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Tittle : How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Author : Heather Cox Richardson
Pages : 272 pages
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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ISBN-10 : 019758179X
ISBN-13 : 9780197581797
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