Factories Counted Profits While Plantations Counted Lives

Name: Factories Counted Profits While Plantations Counted Lives
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Industrial expansion and slave economies during the political crisis before the American Civil War.DE

Автор: Marin Ellis

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The American Civil War emerged from more than regional rivalry. Beneath debates over union and sover...

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Автор

Marin Ellis

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2026

страници

248

EAN

9783565478859

Enbook ID

52824608

Издател

epubli

Теглоt

758

Размери

210 x 297 x 14

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The American Civil War emerged from more than regional rivalry. Beneath debates over union and sovereignty stood two economic systems moving toward incompatible futures. Industrial capitalism accelerated across the North while the plantation South remained tied to agricultural wealth sustained through slavery and territorial expansion.This book examines the economic and political tensions that fractured the United States during the Civil War era. Northern industrialization strengthened rail networks, urban finance, and manufacturing capacity, while Southern elites defended a plantation economy dependent on enslaved labor and cotton exports. Territorial expansion into western lands intensified the struggle over whether slavery would remain central to the nation's future development.The narrative also explores the constitutional conflicts surrounding federal authority and states' rights. Legislative compromises, Supreme Court decisions, and constitutional amendments repeatedly postponed confrontation without resolving the deeper contradiction between national unity and regional autonomy. Political institutions increasingly lost the ability to contain sectional polarization.The Civil War appears here not as an unavoidable destiny, but as the violent collision of economic systems, legal structures, and competing visions of what the United States was meant to become.

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