The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War

by Heather Cox Richardson

While fighting a war for the Union, the Republican party attempted to construct the world's most powerful and most socially advanced nation. Rejecting the common assumption that wartime domestic legislation was a series of piecemeal reactions to wartime necessities, Heather Cox Richardson argues that party members systematically engineered pathbreaking laws to promote their distinctive theory of political economy.

Republicans were a dynamic,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674362136
• ISBN13: 9780674362130
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"