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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... Jefferson Davis , the future president of the southern Confederacy , fought bravely against the Mexicans at the battle of Buena Vista in February 1847 . He did so for several mutually reinforcing reasons : to further his own status , to ...
... Jefferson Davis , the future president of the southern Confederacy , fought bravely against the Mexicans at the battle of Buena Vista in February 1847 . He did so for several mutually reinforcing reasons : to further his own status , to ...
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... Jefferson Davis, a rich Mississippi cotton planter, insisted that if the Mexicans had had the right to dispossess the Aztecs because the latter had not cultivated the land properly, the same argument justified the United States taking ...
... Jefferson Davis, a rich Mississippi cotton planter, insisted that if the Mexicans had had the right to dispossess the Aztecs because the latter had not cultivated the land properly, the same argument justified the United States taking ...
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... Jefferson Davis : Vol . 3 , July 1846 - December 1848 ( Baton Rouge , La , 1981 ) , p.8 . 13. Margaret Fuller , ' These Sad But Glorious Days ' : Dispatches from Europe , 1846-1850 , ed . Larry J. Reynolds and Susan Belasco Smith ( New ...
... Jefferson Davis : Vol . 3 , July 1846 - December 1848 ( Baton Rouge , La , 1981 ) , p.8 . 13. Margaret Fuller , ' These Sad But Glorious Days ' : Dispatches from Europe , 1846-1850 , ed . Larry J. Reynolds and Susan Belasco Smith ( New ...
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... Jefferson Davis , 3 , p.286 . 24. Bruce Collins , White Society in the Antebellum South ( London , 1985 ) , pp . 15–16 . 25. Quoted in Parish , Slavery , p . 124 . 26. William J. Cooper , Jr , Liberty and Slavery : Southern Politics to ...
... Jefferson Davis , 3 , p.286 . 24. Bruce Collins , White Society in the Antebellum South ( London , 1985 ) , pp . 15–16 . 25. Quoted in Parish , Slavery , p . 124 . 26. William J. Cooper , Jr , Liberty and Slavery : Southern Politics to ...
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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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