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Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Heather Cox Richardson: How the South Won the Civil War

While ​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 there
established 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 extractive
industries-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 paradox, the competing claims of equality… (tovább)

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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022
272 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780197581797

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