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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... 1850s The Kansas - Nebraska Act 64 73 74 Politics in flux 79 The Republican threat 91 The eclipse of national Democracy and the election of Lincoln 100 4. The Disunited States : Secession and Civil War Secession CONTENTS Table of Contents.
... 1850s The Kansas - Nebraska Act 64 73 74 Politics in flux 79 The Republican threat 91 The eclipse of national Democracy and the election of Lincoln 100 4. The Disunited States : Secession and Civil War Secession CONTENTS Table of Contents.
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... Secession and Civil War Secession and the outbreak of war , 1860-61 The chimera of victory , 1861-62 114 115 126 The triumph of Union arms , 1863-65 141 5. Our Deliverance is Nigh : The Quest for Southern Independence 158 Born in the ...
... Secession and Civil War Secession and the outbreak of war , 1860-61 The chimera of victory , 1861-62 114 115 126 The triumph of Union arms , 1863-65 141 5. Our Deliverance is Nigh : The Quest for Southern Independence 158 Born in the ...
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... Secession Circled numbers indicate order of secession FLA . Map 4. The 1860 Presidential Election and the Secession Crisis Source : After McPherson , J.M. ( 1988 ) , Battle Cry of Freedom : The Era of the Civil War ( pub . Oxford ...
... Secession Circled numbers indicate order of secession FLA . Map 4. The 1860 Presidential Election and the Secession Crisis Source : After McPherson , J.M. ( 1988 ) , Battle Cry of Freedom : The Era of the Civil War ( pub . Oxford ...
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... secession . At mid - century 1.8 million of the 2.5 million slaves laboring in the agricultural sector worked on farms that produced primarily cotton . The remainder cultivated other staple crops : 350,000 were engaged in tobacco ...
... secession . At mid - century 1.8 million of the 2.5 million slaves laboring in the agricultural sector worked on farms that produced primarily cotton . The remainder cultivated other staple crops : 350,000 were engaged in tobacco ...
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... secession , was a staunch advocate of progressive agriculture and heavily involved in local and regional railway promotion . Some of his fellow slaveholders were less enthusiastic about running up public debts to pay for what they ...
... secession , was a staunch advocate of progressive agriculture and heavily involved in local and regional railway promotion . Some of his fellow slaveholders were less enthusiastic about running up public debts to pay for what they ...
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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