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02.23.13 Egnal, Mark, Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War, published in 2009.

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This  study marshals evidence to challenge the belief that the War Between the States concerned high moral principles.  Rather, the author emphasizes as a cause the unprecedented economic aggressiveness of the rising industrialists of the Great Lakes/Upper Midwest region in the late antebellum period.

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