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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... women in the cart . Each one was color coordinated representing not only a state , but also a region . Those representing the northern states wore green , the South blue , the middle states pink , the West ' buff or corn color ' . Other ...
... women in the cart . Each one was color coordinated representing not only a state , but also a region . Those representing the northern states wore green , the South blue , the middle states pink , the West ' buff or corn color ' . Other ...
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... Women . More speeches followed . Judge Weston , a busy man this day , looked forward to the growth of Augusta . The ... Woman's rights . As woman was taken from the hide of man , it is most fitting that she keep her natural position ...
... Women . More speeches followed . Judge Weston , a busy man this day , looked forward to the growth of Augusta . The ... Woman's rights . As woman was taken from the hide of man , it is most fitting that she keep her natural position ...
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... women were raped by their white masters . Such factors were among the reasons why so many southern churchmen , fearful of God's impending judgment upon a sinful people , implored their fellow whites to improve their treatment of slaves ...
... women were raped by their white masters . Such factors were among the reasons why so many southern churchmen , fearful of God's impending judgment upon a sinful people , implored their fellow whites to improve their treatment of slaves ...
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... women as to white men . In common with all American women , the lives and identities of female southerners were conditioned by gender , class , and race relations . Like their northern peers they were legally second - class citizens ...
... women as to white men . In common with all American women , the lives and identities of female southerners were conditioned by gender , class , and race relations . Like their northern peers they were legally second - class citizens ...
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... women , the imperative to preserve slavery resulted in northern reform movements such as abolitionism and women's rights being labeled entirely disreputable . Even the homegrown temperance movement , heavily reliant on female ...
... women , the imperative to preserve slavery resulted in northern reform movements such as abolitionism and women's rights being labeled entirely disreputable . Even the homegrown temperance movement , heavily reliant on female ...
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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