Civil War America: Making a Nation, 1848-1877Routledge, 2014 M06 6 - 402 pages The American Civil War was without doubt the defining event in the history of the United States. This up-to-date analyisis of a critical period goes beyond the origins, course and consequences of the Civil War to bring in other important themes such as racial conflict, gender relations, religion, the popular memory and state formation. |
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... American History ( for a month's research in New York ) ; the United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Board , and the University of Sheffield ( which , in tandem , allowed me to spend a full academic year researching and writing ) ...
... American History ( for a month's research in New York ) ; the United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Board , and the University of Sheffield ( which , in tandem , allowed me to spend a full academic year researching and writing ) ...
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... American Civil War To Cashtown & Chambersburg To Hagerstown 原原 To Carlisle. Missouri Arkansas Red GRANT 1863 R. Mississippi R BANKS 1864 Port Hudson Cairo Memphis INDIANA OHIO Cincinnati R Cumberland MARYLAND 1863 1862 LEE Baltimore ...
... American Civil War To Cashtown & Chambersburg To Hagerstown 原原 To Carlisle. Missouri Arkansas Red GRANT 1863 R. Mississippi R BANKS 1864 Port Hudson Cairo Memphis INDIANA OHIO Cincinnati R Cumberland MARYLAND 1863 1862 LEE Baltimore ...
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... America . At times it seemed that the United States itself might cease to exist . The Civil War was the great watershed in American history . Without the unity it so dearly bought , Carnegie's express train of a nation might have been ...
... America . At times it seemed that the United States itself might cease to exist . The Civil War was the great watershed in American history . Without the unity it so dearly bought , Carnegie's express train of a nation might have been ...
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... America . Tensions between the two countries persisted throughout the nineteenth century and several times portended the outbreak of war . But in spite of considerable mutual suspicion at the elite and grassroots levels , British and ...
... America . Tensions between the two countries persisted throughout the nineteenth century and several times portended the outbreak of war . But in spite of considerable mutual suspicion at the elite and grassroots levels , British and ...
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... American System ' of standardized production with interchangeable parts that was par- ticularly in evidence in the manufacture of armaments and clocks . Economic development was extensive as well as intensive . The Treaty of Guadalupe ...
... American System ' of standardized production with interchangeable parts that was par- ticularly in evidence in the manufacture of armaments and clocks . Economic development was extensive as well as intensive . The Treaty of Guadalupe ...
Contents
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The Politics of Slavery Expansion 184852 | 42 |
3 Political Crises of the 1850s | 73 |
Secession and Civil War | 114 |
The Quest for Southern Independence | 158 |
The Union in Wartime | 191 |
The Struggle over Reconstruction 186576 | 229 |
The Far West in the MidNineteenth Century | 269 |
9 Reform Reaction and Reunion at the Dawn of the Gilded Age | 302 |
The United States in the Era of Civil War | 339 |
Select Bibliography | 343 |
Index | 351 |
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