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The greatest nation of the earth : Republican economic policies during the Civil War / Heather Cox Richardson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richardson, Heather Cox.
- Series:
- Harvard historical studies ; v. 126.
- Harvard historical studies ; 126
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History.
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).
- United States--Economic policy--To 1933.
- United States.
- United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While fighting a war for the Union, the Republican party attempted to construct the most powerful and socially advanced nation in the world. Rejecting common assumptions that wartime legislation was a series of piecemeal reactions to wartime necessities, this book argues that the party members systematically engineered pathbreaking laws to promote their own distinctive theory of political economy. The author aims to show that the Republicans were a dynamic progressive party who championed a specific type of economic growth.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 "The Cares of Your Country Are a Paramount Duty": The Republicans in 1861
- 2 "Now Is the Time for Making Money, by Honest Contracts, Out of the Government": War Bo n d s
- 3 "A Centralization of Power, Such as Hamilton Might Have Eulogised as Magnificent": Monetary Legislation
- 4 "Directing the Legislation of the Country to the Improvement of the Country": Tariff and Ta x Le g i s l a t i o n
- 5 "A Large Crop Is More Than a Great Victory": Agricultural Legislation
- 6 "It Was Statesmanship to Give Treeless Prairies Value": The Transcontinental Railroad
- 7 "See That All Their Blessings Are the Result of Their Own Labor": Republicans and Slavery
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-336) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-05965-4
- OCLC:
- 49848319
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