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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... South The South redeemed 8. Land of Gold: The Far West in the Mid-Nineteenth Century The mining frontier The subjugation of the Plains Indians Toward a modern West The tribulations of Henry Eno 9. Reform, Reaction and Reunion at the ...
... South The South redeemed 8. Land of Gold: The Far West in the Mid-Nineteenth Century The mining frontier The subjugation of the Plains Indians Toward a modern West The tribulations of Henry Eno 9. Reform, Reaction and Reunion at the ...
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... South. Even before the Civil War began, commentators argued that some kind of conflict between the two dominant regions (or 'sections') of the United States was inevitable, given the very different labor systems on which the economies of ...
... South. Even before the Civil War began, commentators argued that some kind of conflict between the two dominant regions (or 'sections') of the United States was inevitable, given the very different labor systems on which the economies of ...
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... South than in the upper South and border states where the system was looser. Paternalists depicted a cohesive society in which employers and bonded workers lived in harmony with one another. The reality was less impressive. The ...
... South than in the upper South and border states where the system was looser. Paternalists depicted a cohesive society in which employers and bonded workers lived in harmony with one another. The reality was less impressive. The ...
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... South differed from the modernizing, capitalist 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 ...
... South differed from the modernizing, capitalist 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 ...
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... South by channeling surplus capital into land and slaves, the generally high returns on cotton and other staple products indicate that most planters were motivated primarily by the desire to make money. In common with the commercial and ...
... South by channeling surplus capital into land and slaves, the generally high returns on cotton and other staple products indicate that most planters were motivated primarily by the desire to make money. In common with the commercial and ...
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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