How the South won the Civil War oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of America
"While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern oligarchic ideology to find a new home and take root. Even with the abolition of slavery and the equalizin...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- The roots of paradox
- The triumph of equality
- The West
- Cowboy Reconstruction
- Western politics
- The West and the South join forces
- The rise of the new West
- Oligarchy rides again
- Conclusion: What then is this American?
