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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... former mayors , mayors from neighboring towns , the Sheriff of Kennebec County , the Governor of Maine , other state officers , members of Maine's con- gressional delegation , clergymen , justices and officers of the state supreme court ...
... former mayors , mayors from neighboring towns , the Sheriff of Kennebec County , the Governor of Maine , other state officers , members of Maine's con- gressional delegation , clergymen , justices and officers of the state supreme court ...
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... former colonial power in terms of railroad mileage . At London's Great Exhibition in 1851 observers were highly complimentary of the ' American System ' of standardized production with interchangeable parts that was par- ticularly in ...
... former colonial power in terms of railroad mileage . At London's Great Exhibition in 1851 observers were highly complimentary of the ' American System ' of standardized production with interchangeable parts that was par- ticularly in ...
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... former metropole , and even in trading and manufacturing terms they remained heavily dependent on economic currents across the Atlantic . Much of the braggadocio noted by observers was compensatory in origin – an outgrowth of fears ...
... former metropole , and even in trading and manufacturing terms they remained heavily dependent on economic currents across the Atlantic . Much of the braggadocio noted by observers was compensatory in origin – an outgrowth of fears ...
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... former colony for more than three - quarters of its raw cotton supplies , while by 1860 the value of cotton exports represented two - thirds of America's total exports.15 By the end of the 1850s the United States was exporting well over ...
... former colony for more than three - quarters of its raw cotton supplies , while by 1860 the value of cotton exports represented two - thirds of America's total exports.15 By the end of the 1850s the United States was exporting well over ...
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... former masters ; when they would govern us and our posterity through our former slaves , and their posterity . Think not , I look too far ahead , or that I am deceived . I see the future thus far , if we do not meet & repel the attack ...
... former masters ; when they would govern us and our posterity through our former slaves , and their posterity . Think not , I look too far ahead , or that I am deceived . I see the future thus far , if we do not meet & repel the attack ...
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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