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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... abolitionist movement in the North which vilified southern whites as moral reprobates put an end to any chance that slavery could be destroyed from within. While some critical voices could still be heard in some of the border states ...
... abolitionist movement in the North which vilified southern whites as moral reprobates put an end to any chance that slavery could be destroyed from within. While some critical voices could still be heard in some of the border states ...
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... abolitionism and women's rights being labeled entirely disreputable . Even the homegrown temperance movement , heavily reliant on female involvement , had fizzled out by the 1850s . Wealthy cotton lords such as John C. Calhoun had no ...
... abolitionism and women's rights being labeled entirely disreputable . Even the homegrown temperance movement , heavily reliant on female involvement , had fizzled out by the 1850s . Wealthy cotton lords such as John C. Calhoun had no ...
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... abolitionist movement , had concluded that women were scarcely less oppressed than slaves and that it was time to contest their own political and legal oppression . — In 1848 two highly literate women reformers with links to the ...
... abolitionist movement , had concluded that women were scarcely less oppressed than slaves and that it was time to contest their own political and legal oppression . — In 1848 two highly literate women reformers with links to the ...
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... abolitionist feeling ( as it had been in the Jacksonian period ) than a combustible mix of identity politics and class and ethnic friction . One of the most sensational outbreaks of disorder occurred in Manhattan on May 10 , 1849 when a ...
... abolitionist feeling ( as it had been in the Jacksonian period ) than a combustible mix of identity politics and class and ethnic friction . One of the most sensational outbreaks of disorder occurred in Manhattan on May 10 , 1849 when a ...
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... abolitionist petitions.53 The subsequent debate over Texas annexation brought the slavery issue to the center stage of American politics. In the spring of 1844 US Secretary of State John C. Calhoun released a copy of a letter he had ...
... abolitionist petitions.53 The subsequent debate over Texas annexation brought the slavery issue to the center stage of American politics. In the spring of 1844 US Secretary of State John C. Calhoun released a copy of a letter he had ...
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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