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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... Reform , Reaction and Reunion at the Dawn of the Gilded Age 302 The economy and society of postwar America 303 Organizing for reform 310 Faltering steps to reconciliation 324 The electoral crisis of 1876-77 330 Conclusion . The Proving ...
... Reform , Reaction and Reunion at the Dawn of the Gilded Age 302 The economy and society of postwar America 303 Organizing for reform 310 Faltering steps to reconciliation 324 The electoral crisis of 1876-77 330 Conclusion . The Proving ...
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... reform which many observers , Alexis de Tocqueville among them , had singled out as one of the most distinctive features of American life . Although the steady growth of Protestantism was resisted by secular republicans , the per ...
... reform which many observers , Alexis de Tocqueville among them , had singled out as one of the most distinctive features of American life . Although the steady growth of Protestantism was resisted by secular republicans , the per ...
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... reform . The controversy over paternalism has fed into the heated scholarly debate over the extent to which the South differed from the modern- izing , capitalist North . Much depends here on how one defines capitalism , a notoriously ...
... reform . The controversy over paternalism has fed into the heated scholarly debate over the extent to which the South differed from the modern- izing , capitalist North . Much depends here on how one defines capitalism , a notoriously ...
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... reform ' ( a catch - all term which included calls for public schools , manufacturing , and tighter moral discipline ) . Planters worried about the possibility that their dominance might be challenged seriously by those who did not have ...
... reform ' ( a catch - all term which included calls for public schools , manufacturing , and tighter moral discipline ) . Planters worried about the possibility that their dominance might be challenged seriously by those who did not have ...
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... . Had they not done so one might have expected to see some evidence of southern women becoming involved in reform movements of all kinds during the years preceding the Civil War . Such A ROBBER AND A JAILER : THE ANTEBELLUM REPUBLIC 21.
... . Had they not done so one might have expected to see some evidence of southern women becoming involved in reform movements of all kinds during the years preceding the Civil War . Such A ROBBER AND A JAILER : THE ANTEBELLUM REPUBLIC 21.
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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