Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877.

Preface 1. Modernization, southern separatism, and state formation in American political development 2. The political economy of secession and civil war 3. War mobilization and state formation in the northern Union and southern Confederacy 4. Gold, greenbacks, and the political economy of finance capital after the Civil War 5. Legislation, the Republican party, and finance capital during Reconstruction 6. State structure and Reconstruction: the political legacy of the Civil War 7. Southern separatism and the class basis of American politics Index.