Colossal Ambitions Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War World |
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Author:
| Brettle, Adrian |
Series title: | A Nation Divided Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8139-4438-8 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2020 |
Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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An impressive and complex undertaking, Colossal Ambitions concludes that while some Confederate commentators saw wartime industrialization as pointing toward a different economic future, most Confederates saw their society as revolving once more around coercive labor, staple crop production, and exports in the war's wake.
An impressive and complex undertaking, Colossal Ambitions concludes that while some Confederate commentators saw wartime industrialization as pointing toward a different economic future, most Confederates saw their society as revolving once more around coercive labor, staple crop production, and exports in the war's wake.