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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... and the election of Lincoln 4. The Disunited States : Secession and Civil War Secession and the outbreak of war , 1860-61 The chimera of victory , 1861-62 The triumph of Union arms , 1863-65 5. Our Deliverance Is Nigh : The Quest for ...
... and the election of Lincoln 4. The Disunited States : Secession and Civil War Secession and the outbreak of war , 1860-61 The chimera of victory , 1861-62 The triumph of Union arms , 1863-65 5. Our Deliverance Is Nigh : The Quest for ...
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... and the series editor, Mark White. The text is the stronger for their assistance but, regrettably, the inevitable errors of fact, omission, and interpretation are all my own. Librarians have been unfailingly helpful on my research trips ...
... and the series editor, Mark White. The text is the stronger for their assistance but, regrettably, the inevitable errors of fact, omission, and interpretation are all my own. Librarians have been unfailingly helpful on my research trips ...
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... and the Clayton- Bulwer Treaty of 1850 had calmed American fears about British imperialism in Central America, the United States was well placed not only to dominate its own backyard but, with European squabbles confined largely to the ...
... and the Clayton- Bulwer Treaty of 1850 had calmed American fears about British imperialism in Central America, the United States was well placed not only to dominate its own backyard but, with European squabbles confined largely to the ...
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... and the administration of the territories (thinly populated areas of the West that were being prepared for full statehood). A plethora of other centripetal forces existed in the antebellum Republic. The United States was one of the ...
... and the administration of the territories (thinly populated areas of the West that were being prepared for full statehood). A plethora of other centripetal forces existed in the antebellum Republic. The United States was one of the ...
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... and the nation . Although these loyalties could and sometimes did conflict , the resulting tensions were normally contained by the built - in flexibility of a system which mandated a fair degree of mutual tolerance . For the most part ...
... and the nation . Although these loyalties could and sometimes did conflict , the resulting tensions were normally contained by the built - in flexibility of a system which mandated a fair degree of mutual tolerance . For the most part ...
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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