audiobook India in the Chinese Imagination: Myth; Religion; and Thought (Encounters with Asia) by From University of Pennsylvania Press in History

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This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war’s significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America’s turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution.Chapters tell the story of the Civil War; discussing the issues raised in readable prose; each followed by a detailed bibliographical essay; looking at the different major works on the subject with varying ideological viewpoints and conclusions.In his economic analysis of slavery; Professor Hummel takes a different view. While some writers claim that slavery was unprofitable and harmful to the Southern economy; and others maintain it was profitable and efficient for the South; Hummel uses the economic concept of 'Deadweight Loss' to show that slavery was both highly profitable for slave owners and harmful to Southern economic development.While highly critical of Confederate policy; Hummel argues that the war was fought to prevent secession; not to end slavery; and that preservation of the Union was not necessary to end slavery arguing that the South crucially relied on the Northern states to return runaway slaves to their owners.