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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... 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 Time : The United States in viii CIVIL WAR AMERICA.
... 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 Time : The United States in viii CIVIL WAR AMERICA.
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... Society in the Antebellum South , © Longman Group Ltd 1985 , reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Ltd ( Collins , B. 1985 ) ; Map 3 redrawn from For God and Mammon : Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs , Masters and Slaves in ...
... Society in the Antebellum South , © Longman Group Ltd 1985 , reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Ltd ( Collins , B. 1985 ) ; Map 3 redrawn from For God and Mammon : Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs , Masters and Slaves in ...
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... After Collins , B. ( 1985 ) , White Society in the Antebellum South ( pub . Longman ) , p.194 . © Longman Group Ltd 1985 , reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Ltd. Missouri Arkansas Red GRANT 1863 R. Mississippi R BANKS 1864.
... After Collins , B. ( 1985 ) , White Society in the Antebellum South ( pub . Longman ) , p.194 . © Longman Group Ltd 1985 , reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Ltd. Missouri Arkansas Red GRANT 1863 R. Mississippi R BANKS 1864.
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... society as well as the inexorable march of national progress . Municipal and state governments performed numerous positive functions in the antebellum period . They regu- lated many aspects of daily life , for example , promoting ...
... society as well as the inexorable march of national progress . Municipal and state governments performed numerous positive functions in the antebellum period . They regu- lated many aspects of daily life , for example , promoting ...
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... societies , for example ) that fueled the expansion of evangelical culture . Crucial to the development of what Benedict Anderson calls an ' imagined community ' was the strong sense among Americans of a shared Revolutionary heritage ...
... societies , for example ) that fueled the expansion of evangelical culture . Crucial to the development of what Benedict Anderson calls an ' imagined community ' was the strong sense among Americans of a shared Revolutionary heritage ...
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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