9780809095186

The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War

Michael F. Holt

ISBN 10: 0809095181 / 0-8090-9518-1
ISBN 13: 9780809095186
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
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What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant and succinct book, Holt distills a lifetime of scholarship to demonstrate that secession and war did not arise from two irreconcilable economies any more than from moral obligations to slavery. Short-sighted politicians were to blame....


 

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