When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession

Adams, Charles

ISBN 10: 0847697231 / ISBN 13: 9780847697236

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847697231
• ISBN 13: 9780847697236
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Using primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their political rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence when they seceded from the United States. Although conventional histories have taught generations of Americans that this was a war fought for lofty moral principles, Adams' eloquent history transcends simple Southern partisanship to show how the American Civil War was primarily a battle over competing commercial interests, opposing interpretations of constitutional rights, and what English novelist Charles Dickens described as "a fiscal quarrel".

About the Author

Charles Adams, the world's leading scholar on the history of taxation, is the author of the best selling books For Good and Evil, Those Dirty Rotten Taxes, and Fight, Flight, and Fraud.