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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... Republic National development and national identity Slavery and the antebellum South Life in the ' free states ' The second party system 2. Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War : Slavery Expansion , 1848–52 The political impact of the Mexican ...
... Republic National development and national identity Slavery and the antebellum South Life in the ' free states ' The second party system 2. Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War : Slavery Expansion , 1848–52 The political impact of the Mexican ...
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... Republic ( ' Better than all the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them ' ) , The President of the United States , The United States Military ( Toes and friends unite in saying of their past deeds - ENOUGH . May they henceforth ...
... Republic ( ' Better than all the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them ' ) , The President of the United States , The United States Military ( Toes and friends unite in saying of their past deeds - ENOUGH . May they henceforth ...
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... Republic full high streaming with not a star or stripe erased'. John W. Chase chose a different subject but ended with another toast: 'Woman's rights. As woman was taken from the hide of man, it is most fitting that she keep her natural ...
... Republic full high streaming with not a star or stripe erased'. John W. Chase chose a different subject but ended with another toast: 'Woman's rights. As woman was taken from the hide of man, it is most fitting that she keep her natural ...
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... REPUBLIC. DOI: 10.4324/9781315838847-2. National. development. and. national. identity. Viewed from the perspective of the 1880s the United States was one of the great success stories of the nineteenth century. 'The old nations of the earth ...
... REPUBLIC. DOI: 10.4324/9781315838847-2. National. development. and. national. identity. Viewed from the perspective of the 1880s the United States was one of the great success stories of the nineteenth century. 'The old nations of the earth ...
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... republic, won for them by the exploits of the Revolutionary generation, had been transformed from a satellite of Great Britain confined mainly to the Atlantic littoral to a major regional power capable of crushing the Mexicans in one of ...
... republic, won for them by the exploits of the Revolutionary generation, had been transformed from a satellite of Great Britain confined mainly to the Atlantic littoral to a major regional power capable of crushing the Mexicans in one of ...
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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