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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... Kansas - Nebraska Act Politics in flux The Republican threat The eclipse of national Democracy and the election of Lincoln 4. The Disunited States : Secession and Civil War Secession and the outbreak of war , 1860-61 The chimera of ...
... Kansas - Nebraska Act Politics in flux The Republican threat The eclipse of national Democracy and the election of Lincoln 4. The Disunited States : Secession and Civil War Secession and the outbreak of war , 1860-61 The chimera of ...
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... Kansas, used by permission of The University of 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 ...
... Kansas, used by permission of The University of 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 ...
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... KANSAS TERRITORY Marmaton River Ft . Scott 50 km 30 miles MISSOURI STATE Map 3 Kansas Territory in 1856 Source : After SenGupta , G. ( 1996 ) , For God and Mammon : Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs , Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas ...
... KANSAS TERRITORY Marmaton River Ft . Scott 50 km 30 miles MISSOURI STATE Map 3 Kansas Territory in 1856 Source : After SenGupta , G. ( 1996 ) , For God and Mammon : Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs , Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas ...
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... KANSAS ( 1861 ) MISSOURI KENTUCKY TENNESSEE 1 NORTH CAROLINA NEW MEXICO TERR . INDIAN TERR . ARKANSAS SOUTH CAROLINA GEORGIA MISS . 2 ALABAMA TEXAS 1 LOUISIANA FLA . 0 The Progress of Secession Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by ...
... KANSAS ( 1861 ) MISSOURI KENTUCKY TENNESSEE 1 NORTH CAROLINA NEW MEXICO TERR . INDIAN TERR . ARKANSAS SOUTH CAROLINA GEORGIA MISS . 2 ALABAMA TEXAS 1 LOUISIANA FLA . 0 The Progress of Secession Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by ...
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... Kansas-Nebraska Act, but patently they had no doubt that the Union was a functioning state to which they were proud to pledge allegiance. The same applied to white southerners who risked their lives fighting for the United States on the ...
... Kansas-Nebraska Act, but patently they had no doubt that the Union was a functioning state to which they were proud to pledge allegiance. The same applied to white southerners who risked their lives fighting for the United States on the ...
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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