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In this important new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the story of how that turmoil upended the financial, political, and cultural life of the old South, totally ruining the Confederacy and the culture it managed and represented. Told through what of the folks who lived it, Nov the Home of Dixie illuminates the way in which a battle performed to protect the status-quo turned as that of our first another American Revolution whose effect on the nation was as sustained and powerful.   In 1860 the American South was a huge, rich, imposing area in which a tiny group had accumulated huge prospects and great political energy via a program of forced labour. The South’s big populace of slaveless whites nearly generally backed the fundamental interests of plantation owners, regardless of the massive wealth gap that divided them.