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The fragile fabric of Union, cotton, federal politics, and the global origins of the Civil War, Brian Schoen

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The fragile fabric of Union, cotton, federal politics, and the global origins of the Civil War, Brian Schoen

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrationsmaps

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

The fragile fabric of Union

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bibliography

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758624136

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Brian Schoen

Series statement

Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia

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cotton, federal politics, and the global origins of the Civil War

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Prologue, 1787 -- The threads of a global loom : cotton, slavery, and union in an interdependent Atlantic, 1789-1820 -- Calculating the cost of union : nationalism and sectionalism in a Republican era, 1796-1818 -- Protecting slavery and free trade : the political economy of cotton, 1818-1833 -- Building bridges to the West and the world : empowerment and anxiety in the Second Party System, 1834-1848 -- An unnatural union : King Cotton and the lower South secession, 1849-1860 -- Epilogue, 1861

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