Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on May 28, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(2):455-457; doi:10.1093/es/khm044
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Nicholas Onuf and Peter Onuf. Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War
Nicholas Onuf and Peter Onuf. Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xii + 362 pp. ISBN 0-813-9250-29, $45.00 (cloth)
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The bloodiest war ever fought by the United States, the Civil War remains a focal point of American historical writing and research. How could Americans embark in such a war where brothers fought brothers? And what does this experience tell us about the nature of the American union, before and after the Civil War? Two brothers, historians Nicholas and Peter Onuf, confront these questions in a wide-ranging study that will challenge their readers's
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