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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... Antebellum Republic National development and national identity Slavery and the antebellum South 1 20 5 5 14 Life in the ' free states ' 23 The second party system 33 2 . Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War : The Politics of Slavery Expansion ...
... Antebellum Republic National development and national identity Slavery and the antebellum South 1 20 5 5 14 Life in the ' free states ' 23 The second party system 33 2 . Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War : The Politics of Slavery Expansion ...
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... Antebellum South , © Longman Group Ltd 1985 , reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Ltd ( Collins , B. 1985 ) ; Map 3 redrawn from For God and Mammon : Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs , Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas ...
... Antebellum South , © Longman Group Ltd 1985 , reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Ltd ( Collins , B. 1985 ) ; Map 3 redrawn from For God and Mammon : Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs , Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas ...
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... B. ( 1985 ) , White Society in the Antebellum South ( pub . Longman ) , p.194 . © Longman Group Ltd 1985 , reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Ltd. Missouri Arkansas Red GRANT 1863 R. Mississippi R BANKS 1864.
... B. ( 1985 ) , White Society in the Antebellum South ( pub . Longman ) , p.194 . © Longman Group Ltd 1985 , reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Ltd. Missouri Arkansas Red GRANT 1863 R. Mississippi R BANKS 1864.
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... all things considered , ' a memorable day ' . Note 1 . This account of events in Augusta is based on reports in the Maine Farmer , June 29 and July 13 , 1854 . | A ROBBER AND A JAILER : THE ANTEBELLUM REPUBLIC 4 CIVIL WAR AMERICA.
... all things considered , ' a memorable day ' . Note 1 . This account of events in Augusta is based on reports in the Maine Farmer , June 29 and July 13 , 1854 . | A ROBBER AND A JAILER : THE ANTEBELLUM REPUBLIC 4 CIVIL WAR AMERICA.
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... ANTEBELLUM REPUBLIC National development and national identity Viewed from the perspective of the 1880s the United States was one of the great success stories of the nineteenth century . ' The old nations of the earth creep on at ...
... ANTEBELLUM REPUBLIC National development and national identity Viewed from the perspective of the 1880s the United States was one of the great success stories of the nineteenth century . ' The old nations of the earth creep on at ...
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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