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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on December 7, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(4):979-981; doi:10.1093/es/khm100
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

Daniel W. Hamilton. The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War

Daniel W. Hamilton. The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. vii + 231 pp. ISBN 0-226-31482-0, $39.00

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The Limits of Sovereignty is a concise, well written, and well argued account of the shifting relationship between state power and individual property rights during a defining moment in US history. Through its examination of government confiscation in the north and south, the book provides historians with insight into the legal factors contributing to economic and business developments during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Daniel Hamilton argues that the various confiscation acts of the Civil War, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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