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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... retained the original spelling. In a very few instances I have added letters and inserted punctuation to improve clarity. PROLOGUE INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1854 DOI: 10.4324/9781315838847-1 Maine Yankees began flocking Note on the text.
... retained the original spelling. In a very few instances I have added letters and inserted punctuation to improve clarity. PROLOGUE INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1854 DOI: 10.4324/9781315838847-1 Maine Yankees began flocking Note on the text.
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... Yankees began flocking into their state capital, Augusta, on July 3, 1854.1 They came on foot, on horseback, in farm carts, by train, and on boats along the Kennebec River. Eager to celebrate the city's centennial and the seventy-eighth ...
... Yankees began flocking into their state capital, Augusta, on July 3, 1854.1 They came on foot, on horseback, in farm carts, by train, and on boats along the Kennebec River. Eager to celebrate the city's centennial and the seventy-eighth ...
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... Yankees, Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers swept across the region during the first half of the nineteenth century. The aim of most of them was to secure a farm on which they could lead prosperous and independent lives. Roughly $500 and ...
... Yankees, Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers swept across the region during the first half of the nineteenth century. The aim of most of them was to secure a farm on which they could lead prosperous and independent lives. Roughly $500 and ...
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... Yankees whose puritanical and commercial zeal often knew no bounds. Slowly the various American and even European cultures of the region did begin to blend, but in these early decades of settlement the Midwest was less a melting pot ...
... Yankees whose puritanical and commercial zeal often knew no bounds. Slowly the various American and even European cultures of the region did begin to blend, but in these early decades of settlement the Midwest was less a melting pot ...
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... Yankee moralizing and excessive government interference in society but were also often aggressive supporters of the white Republic and proslavery expansion. In addition to the party's southern bias there was a decidedly ...
... Yankee moralizing and excessive government interference in society but were also often aggressive supporters of the white Republic and proslavery expansion. In addition to the party's southern bias there was a decidedly ...
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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