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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... who administer the Southern Historical Collection in Chapel Hill , North Carolina . Essential financial aid , again gratefully acknowledged , came from three sources : the Gilder Lehrman Institute of ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Acknowledgments.
... who administer the Southern Historical Collection in Chapel Hill , North Carolina . Essential financial aid , again gratefully acknowledged , came from three sources : the Gilder Lehrman Institute of ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Acknowledgments.
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... Division , Library of Congress , Washington , DC Southern Historical Collection , University of North Carolina Library , Chapel Hill , NC WASHINGTON TERRITORY ( Organized 1853 ) TERRITORY MINNESOTAT NEW MEXICO ABBREVIATIONS Abbreviations.
... Division , Library of Congress , Washington , DC Southern Historical Collection , University of North Carolina Library , Chapel Hill , NC WASHINGTON TERRITORY ( Organized 1853 ) TERRITORY MINNESOTAT NEW MEXICO ABBREVIATIONS Abbreviations.
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... North 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 ...
... North 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 ...
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... North and South were based . Modern leftist historians have built on antebellum notions of an ' irrepressible conflict ' between free and slave labor to insist that southerners and northerners were becoming two different peoples ...
... North and South were based . Modern leftist historians have built on antebellum notions of an ' irrepressible conflict ' between free and slave labor to insist that southerners and northerners were becoming two different peoples ...
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... North and South , it is true that slavery did produce a mindset that was different from that of the North in one critical respect : an overriding preoccupation among southern whites with the maintenance of the existing race - based ...
... North and South , it is true that slavery did produce a mindset that was different from that of the North in one critical respect : an overriding preoccupation among southern whites with the maintenance of the existing race - based ...
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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