The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War

by Brian D. Schoen

Book Overview

Winner, 2010 Bennett H. Wall Award, Southern Historical Association

In this fresh study Brian Schoen views the Deep South and its cotton industry from a global perspective, revisiting old assumptions and providing new insights into the region, the political history of the United States, and the causes of the Civil War.

Schoen takes a unique and broad approach. Rather than seeing the Deep South and its planters as isolated from larger...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421404044
• ISBN13: 9781421404042
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher