Marc Egnal, "Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War"English | 2009 | ISBN: 0809016451, 080909536X | EPUB | pages: 432 | 1.2 mb
Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861.