This wide-ranging, original account of the politics and economics of the giant military supply project in the North reconstructs an important but little-known p

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This benchmark volume addresses the debate over the effects of early industrialization on standards of living during the decades before the Civil War. Its contr

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From prominent historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jeffry D. Wert, a multi-biographical work of a remarkable yet largely unknown group of men whose contributi