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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... West in the Mid - Nineteenth Century 269 The mining frontier 271 The subjugation of the Plains Indians 278 Toward a modern West 288 The tribulations of Henry Eno 295 9. Reform , Reaction and Reunion at the Dawn of the Gilded Age 302 The ...
... West in the Mid - Nineteenth Century 269 The mining frontier 271 The subjugation of the Plains Indians 278 Toward a modern West 288 The tribulations of Henry Eno 295 9. Reform , Reaction and Reunion at the Dawn of the Gilded Age 302 The ...
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... WEST VIRGINIA Gettysburg Philadelphia Washington DELAWARE GRANT 1864 Appomattox GRANT Richmond MCCLELLAN 1865 1862 Nashville NORTH CAROLINA SHERMAN 1865 SOUTH CAROLINA MISSISSIPPI Selma GEORGIA Charleston Pensacola FLORIDA New Orleans ...
... WEST VIRGINIA Gettysburg Philadelphia Washington DELAWARE GRANT 1864 Appomattox GRANT Richmond MCCLELLAN 1865 1862 Nashville NORTH CAROLINA SHERMAN 1865 SOUTH CAROLINA MISSISSIPPI Selma GEORGIA Charleston Pensacola FLORIDA New Orleans ...
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... West ' buff or corn color ' . Other wagons bore names such as ' Floral Queen ' , ' Goddess of Liberty ' , and ' The Indian Group ' . There was even one called ' The Know Nothing ' , a reference to a new patriotic and anti- Catholic ...
... West ' buff or corn color ' . Other wagons bore names such as ' Floral Queen ' , ' Goddess of Liberty ' , and ' The Indian Group ' . There was even one called ' The Know Nothing ' , a reference to a new patriotic and anti- Catholic ...
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... West that were being prepared for full statehood ) . A plethora of other centripetal forces existed in the antebellum Republic . The United States was one of the largest free - trade areas on the globe in the nineteenth century . The ...
... West that were being prepared for full statehood ) . A plethora of other centripetal forces existed in the antebellum Republic . The United States was one of the largest free - trade areas on the globe in the nineteenth century . The ...
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... West remained only thinly settled at mid - century . 31 The North did not exist as a formal political entity in 1850 any more than the South , though some antislavery men had already started to call for unity in the face of what they ...
... West remained only thinly settled at mid - century . 31 The North did not exist as a formal political entity in 1850 any more than the South , though some antislavery men had already started to call for unity in the face of what they ...
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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