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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... Civil War can claim to be self - reliant . As readers of the following chapters will be only too aware , I owe a great deal to many renowned scholars for their work on broad and specific aspects of one of the most studied periods in ...
... Civil War can claim to be self - reliant . As readers of the following chapters will be only too aware , I owe a great deal to many renowned scholars for their work on broad and specific aspects of one of the most studied periods in ...
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... Civil War , copyright © 1975 by Peter J. Parish , published and reproduced with the permis- sion of Holmes & Meier , New York ( Parish , P.J. 1975 ) ; Map 2 redrawn from White Society in the Antebellum South , © Longman Group Ltd 1985 ...
... Civil War , copyright © 1975 by Peter J. Parish , published and reproduced with the permis- sion of Holmes & Meier , New York ( Parish , P.J. 1975 ) ; Map 2 redrawn from White Society in the Antebellum South , © Longman Group Ltd 1985 ...
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... 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 VIRGINIA ...
... 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 VIRGINIA ...
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... Civil War . Such evidence does not exist . Living in a rural slave society , southern white women lacked not only the urban networks essential for the promotion of social reform , but also the will . Whereas local charitable activity ...
... Civil War . Such evidence does not exist . Living in a rural slave society , southern white women lacked not only the urban networks essential for the promotion of social reform , but also the will . Whereas local charitable activity ...
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... Civil War . A vibrant , cosmopolitan city with a population of just under a million , it was the nation's leading banking hub as well as its most important trading port and a major manufacturing center . 32 Largely due to its ...
... Civil War . A vibrant , cosmopolitan city with a population of just under a million , it was the nation's leading banking hub as well as its most important trading port and a major manufacturing center . 32 Largely due to its ...
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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