By 1860 the South ranked high among the developed countries of the world in per capita income and life expectancy and in the number of railroad miles, telegraph

What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists active

By 1860 the South ranked high among the developed countries of the world in per capita income and life expectancy and in the number of railroad miles, telegraph

Planters' Progress is the first book to examine the profoundly transformative industrialization of a southern state during the Civil War. More than any other Co

Leading politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants preached a transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy, p