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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... United States in the era of the 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 ...
... United States in the era of the 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 ...
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... 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 ) . The expertise supplied by Wordwise Edit played an important ...
... 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 ) . The expertise supplied by Wordwise Edit played an important ...
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... United States : Vol . 2 , The Long Nineteenth Century ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2000 ) CWH CWL GLC JAH JSH LC SHC Civil War History Roy P. Basler , The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , 9 vols ( New Brunswick , NJ ...
... United States : Vol . 2 , The Long Nineteenth Century ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2000 ) CWH CWL GLC JAH JSH LC SHC Civil War History Roy P. Basler , The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , 9 vols ( New Brunswick , NJ ...
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... United States arsenal . As the city came awake a steady stream of folk converged on Winthrop Street where the main parade was due to assemble . Proceedings were delayed by the late arrival of some fire companies but at eleven o'clock ...
... United States arsenal . As the city came awake a steady stream of folk converged on Winthrop Street where the main parade was due to assemble . Proceedings were delayed by the late arrival of some fire companies but at eleven o'clock ...
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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