re: #82 wrenchwench

You know, I don’t think Woods is necessarily wrong here. I’ve often looked at the Civil War as a battle between a modern liberal (by 1860 standards) nation state and an agrarian feudal society that more resembled 15th century Europe than anything else.

The difference between Woods and myself is that I think it a good thing that the liberal nation state destroyed the feudal state. The world needed more of the former and fewer of the latter.