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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... American history when I was an undergraduate at the University of Warwick. He has continued to do so in numerous ways during the intervening years. The project itself would never have reached the drawing-board without the backing of ...
... American history when I was an undergraduate at the University of Warwick. He has continued to do so in numerous ways during the intervening years. The project itself would never have reached the drawing-board without the backing of ...
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... American Civil War Source: After Parish, P.J. (1975), The American Civil War (pub. New York: Holmes & Meier), p.116. Copyright © 1975 by Peter J. Parish. Reproduced with the permission of the publisher. To Cashtown & Chambersburg To ...
... American Civil War Source: After Parish, P.J. (1975), The American Civil War (pub. New York: Holmes & Meier), p.116. Copyright © 1975 by Peter J. Parish. Reproduced with the permission of the publisher. To Cashtown & Chambersburg To ...
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... America. At times it seemed that the United States itself might cease to exist. The Civil War was the great watershed in American history. Without the unity it so dearly bought, Carnegie's express train of a nation might have been ...
... America. At times it seemed that the United States itself might cease to exist. The Civil War was the great watershed in American history. Without the unity it so dearly bought, Carnegie's express train of a nation might have been ...
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... American fears about British imperialism in Central America, the United States was well placed not only to dominate its own backyard but, with European squabbles confined largely to the Old World, also to continue the task of extending ...
... American fears about British imperialism in Central America, the United States was well placed not only to dominate its own backyard but, with European squabbles confined largely to the Old World, also to continue the task of extending ...
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... Americans with a deep distrust of centralized power. To an extent, their tendency to link power with despotism had been ... American citizens were nevertheless affected by its operations in several spheres. Washington, for example ...
... Americans with a deep distrust of centralized power. To an extent, their tendency to link power with despotism had been ... American citizens were nevertheless affected by its operations in several spheres. Washington, for example ...
Contents
Political Crises of the 1850s | |
Secession and Civil | |
The Quest for Southern Independence | |
The Union in Wartime | |
The Struggle Over Reconstruction 186576 | |
The Far West in the MidNineteenth Century | |
Reform Reaction and Reunion at the Dawn of the Gilded | |
The United States in the Era of Civil | |
Index | |
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