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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... North Carolina. Essential financial aid, again gratefully acknowledged, came from three sources: the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (for a month's research in New York); the United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research ...
... North Carolina. Essential financial aid, again gratefully acknowledged, came from three sources: the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (for a month's research in New York); the United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research ...
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... North America. Tensions between the two countries persisted throughout the nineteenth century and several times portended the outbreak of war. But in spite of considerable mutual suspicion at the elite and grassroots levels, British and ...
... North America. Tensions between the two countries persisted throughout the nineteenth century and several times portended the outbreak of war. But in spite of considerable mutual suspicion at the elite and grassroots levels, British and ...
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... North and South were based. Modern leftist historians have built on antebellum notions of an 'irrepressible conflict' between free and slave labor to insist that southerners and northerners were becoming two different peoples, primarily ...
... North and South were based. Modern leftist historians have built on antebellum notions of an 'irrepressible conflict' between free and slave labor to insist that southerners and northerners were becoming two different peoples, primarily ...
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... North. Much depends here on how one defines capitalism, a notoriously slippery term at the best of times. John Ashworth, for example, has embraced Marx's definition of capitalism as a specific set of social relations between the owner ...
... North. Much depends here on how one defines capitalism, a notoriously slippery term at the best of times. John Ashworth, for example, has embraced Marx's definition of capitalism as a specific set of social relations between the owner ...
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... North and South, it is true that slavery did produce a mindset that was different from that of the North in one critical respect: an overriding preoccupation among southern whites with the maintenance of the existing race-based social ...
... North and South, it is true that slavery did produce a mindset that was different from that of the North in one critical respect: an overriding preoccupation among southern whites with the maintenance of the existing race-based social ...
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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