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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... slaveholders were quite prepared to fight alongside nonslaveholders for the United States in the late 1840s . In other words , if there were fundamental differences between the sections they did not necessarily mean that domestic strife ...
... slaveholders were quite prepared to fight alongside nonslaveholders for the United States in the late 1840s . In other words , if there were fundamental differences between the sections they did not necessarily mean that domestic strife ...
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... slaveholders . For every kind master in the historical record , there is at least one monster like Charles Manigault , a wealthy Georgia rice planter whose compulsive efforts to minimize spending and maximize workloads resulted in the ...
... slaveholders . For every kind master in the historical record , there is at least one monster like Charles Manigault , a wealthy Georgia rice planter whose compulsive efforts to minimize spending and maximize workloads resulted in the ...
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... tenth of its people lived in places containing more than 2,500 inhabitants in 1860 compared with just over a quarter in the free states . This is not to say , however , that slaveholders A ROBBER AND A JAILER : THE ANTEBELLUM REPUBLIC 17.
... tenth of its people lived in places containing more than 2,500 inhabitants in 1860 compared with just over a quarter in the free states . This is not to say , however , that slaveholders A ROBBER AND A JAILER : THE ANTEBELLUM REPUBLIC 17.
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... slaveholders stood at the apex of a backward society . The group of large slaveholders which exercised disproportionate influence in the region was not the barrier to nineteenth - century progress that some external critics of slavery ...
... slaveholders stood at the apex of a backward society . The group of large slaveholders which exercised disproportionate influence in the region was not the barrier to nineteenth - century progress that some external critics of slavery ...
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... slave- holders resided in the staple growing districts of states like Tennessee , Kentucky , and Virginia . Inevitably , friction often characterized relations between planters , small slaveholders , and nonslaveholders ( a diverse ...
... slave- holders resided in the staple growing districts of states like Tennessee , Kentucky , and Virginia . Inevitably , friction often characterized relations between planters , small slaveholders , and nonslaveholders ( a diverse ...
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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