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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... 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 permission of Oxford University. 500 km 200 miles Circled ...
... 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 permission of Oxford University. 500 km 200 miles Circled ...
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... southern slaveholders were quite prepared to fight alongside nonslaveholders for the United States in the late 1840s ... South Carolina and Georgia and the lower reaches of the Mississippi River where the principal staples were rice and ...
... southern slaveholders were quite prepared to fight alongside nonslaveholders for the United States in the late 1840s ... South Carolina and Georgia and the lower reaches of the Mississippi River where the principal staples were rice and ...
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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 ... South Carolina cotton planter often regarded as the godfather of secession, was 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 ... South Carolina cotton planter often regarded as the godfather of secession, was a.
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... South in terms of urbanization and economic development. As southern ... Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia between 35 and 50 percent of ... South's principal cotton entrepots, certainly had little in common with an Irishman ...
... South in terms of urbanization and economic development. As southern ... Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia between 35 and 50 percent of ... South's principal cotton entrepots, certainly had little in common with an Irishman ...
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... southern whites had one thing in common. By 1850 they could all agree that slavery was the mainstay of southern society. As William H. Trescott, a South Carolina cotton planter, put it: 'Slavery informs all our modes of life, all our ...
... southern whites had one thing in common. By 1850 they could all agree that slavery was the mainstay of southern society. As William H. Trescott, a South Carolina cotton planter, put it: 'Slavery informs all our modes of life, all our ...
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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