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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... Georgia Press (SenGupta, G. 1996); Map 4 redrawn from Battle Cry of Freedom: The Era of the Civil War by James M. McPherson, copyright 1988 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc. (McPherson ...
... Georgia Press (SenGupta, G. 1996); Map 4 redrawn from Battle Cry of Freedom: The Era of the Civil War by James M. McPherson, copyright 1988 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc. (McPherson ...
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... Georgia Press , Athens , Georgia 30602. All rights reserved . 500 km 200 miles Circled numbers indicate order of secession.
... Georgia Press , Athens , Georgia 30602. All rights reserved . 500 km 200 miles Circled numbers indicate order of secession.
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... GEORGIA MISS . 2 ALABAMA TEXAS 1 LOUISIANA FLA . 0 The Progress of Secession Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University. 500 km 200 miles Circled numbers indicate order of secession Map 4 The 1860 Presidential ...
... GEORGIA MISS . 2 ALABAMA TEXAS 1 LOUISIANA FLA . 0 The Progress of Secession Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University. 500 km 200 miles Circled numbers indicate order of secession Map 4 The 1860 Presidential ...
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... Georgia rice planter whose compulsive efforts to minimize spending and maximize workloads resulted in the loss of 90 percent of all slave children born on his plantation.18 What is clear is that even the most benevolent of slaveholders ...
... Georgia rice planter whose compulsive efforts to minimize spending and maximize workloads resulted in the loss of 90 percent of all slave children born on his plantation.18 What is clear is that even the most benevolent of slaveholders ...
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... Georgia between 35 and 50 percent of white families held slaves.24 Further north large numbers of slaveholders resided in the staple growing districts of states like Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. Inevitably, friction often ...
... Georgia between 35 and 50 percent of white families held slaves.24 Further north large numbers of slaveholders resided in the staple growing districts of states like Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. Inevitably, friction often ...
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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