The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (Harvard Historical Studies)

While fighting a war for the Union, the Republican party attempted to construct the world’st 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.