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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... Land of Gold : The Far 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 ...
... Land of Gold : The Far 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 ...
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... land disposal rather than land management , federal land offices were the main port of call for many Americans seeking to purchase land and settle on the national domain . During the 1850s alone the government sold off nearly 50 million ...
... land disposal rather than land management , federal land offices were the main port of call for many Americans seeking to purchase land and settle on the national domain . During the 1850s alone the government sold off nearly 50 million ...
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... land and slaves , the generally high returns on cotton and other staple products indicate that most planters were ... land properly , the same argument justified the United States taking land from the Mexicans . The Mexicans , he told ...
... land and slaves , the generally high returns on cotton and other staple products indicate that most planters were ... land properly , the same argument justified the United States taking land from the Mexicans . The Mexicans , he told ...
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... land as well as engaging , like most plantation mistresses , in household production . Almost certainly they shared McCord's racial views and attachment to the existing racial order . Had they not done so one might have expected to see ...
... land as well as engaging , like most plantation mistresses , in household production . Almost certainly they shared McCord's racial views and attachment to the existing racial order . Had they not done so one might have expected to see ...
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... lands of the Far 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 ...
... lands of the Far 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 ...
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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