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Bensel, Richard Franklin was born on November 13, 1949 in Pendleton, Oregon, United States. Son of John Gordon B. and Dorothy Lois (Carey) Bohlender.
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Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
(This book describes the impact of the American Civil War ...)
This book describes the impact of the American Civil War on the development of central state authority in the late nineteenth century. The author contends that intense competition for control of the national political economy between the free North and slave South produced secession, which in turn spawned the formation of two new states, a market-oriented northern Union and a southern Confederacy in which government controls on the economy were much more important. During the Civil War, the American state both expanded and became the agent of northern economic development. After the war ended, however, tension within the Republican coalition led to the abandonment of Reconstruction and to the return of former Confederates to political power throughout the South. As a result, American state expansion ground to a halt during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book makes a major contribution to the understanding of the causes and consequences of the Civil War and the legacy of the war in the twentieth century.
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Richard Franklin Bensel
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Bachelor, University of Chicago, 1971; Master of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1976; Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, Cornell Univercity, 1978.
Career
Assistant professor, Texas A & M U., College Station, 1977-1982; assistant professor, University Texas, Dallas, 1982-1984; professor, New School Social Research, New York City, 1984-1993; professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1993.
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Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
(This book describes the impact of the American Civil War ...)
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Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
Membership
Member American History Association, American Political Science Association, Organisation American History, Agrl.History Association, Economics History Association.
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Married M. ElizabethSanders, January 1, 1979. 1 child, Seth Joseph Bensel.
