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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... attacks July 1 A. P. Hill Longstreet's attack July 2 Seminary Lee's H.Q. SEMINARY RIDG Longstreet Peach orchard 鸚 To Emmitsburg 原辰 Hill Ewell Pickett's charge July 3 1000 70000 00000 CEMETERY RIDGE Wheat field To Harrisburg To York ...
... attacks July 1 A. P. Hill Longstreet's attack July 2 Seminary Lee's H.Q. SEMINARY RIDG Longstreet Peach orchard 鸚 To Emmitsburg 原辰 Hill Ewell Pickett's charge July 3 1000 70000 00000 CEMETERY RIDGE Wheat field To Harrisburg To York ...
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... attacks on the peculiar institution . Eugene D. Genovese has argued that paternalism was practice and not just rhetoric.1 Masters and slaves , he suggests , were caught in a complex tangle of interpersonal relations and reciprocal ...
... attacks on the peculiar institution . Eugene D. Genovese has argued that paternalism was practice and not just rhetoric.1 Masters and slaves , he suggests , were caught in a complex tangle of interpersonal relations and reciprocal ...
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... attacks not only insulting but also mystifying for the simple reason that their region was patently not laggard when com- pared with virtually every country in the world . Only Great Britain , the Low Countries and parts of the North ...
... attacks not only insulting but also mystifying for the simple reason that their region was patently not laggard when com- pared with virtually every country in the world . Only Great Britain , the Low Countries and parts of the North ...
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... attacked . When middle - class reformers called for economic diversification and state - funded public schools in the 1850s , they did so within the context of a relatively mature slave society which they assumed to be permanent . None ...
... attacked . When middle - class reformers called for economic diversification and state - funded public schools in the 1850s , they did so within the context of a relatively mature slave society which they assumed to be permanent . None ...
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... attack , as clearly , as I do the rising of the sun tomorrow . " 28 Slavery did not guarantee that southern whites would agree on everything . Far from it . Common whites were tenacious defenders of their rights and , away from some of ...
... attack , as clearly , as I do the rising of the sun tomorrow . " 28 Slavery did not guarantee that southern whites would agree on everything . Far from it . Common whites were tenacious defenders of their rights and , away from some of ...
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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