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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... Antebellum Republic National development and national identity Slavery and the antebellum South Life in the ' free states ' The second party system 2. Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War : Slavery Expansion , 1848–52 The political impact of ...
... Antebellum Republic National development and national identity Slavery and the antebellum South Life in the ' free states ' The second party system 2. Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War : Slavery Expansion , 1848–52 The political impact of ...
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... in 1860 Source: After Collins, B. (1985), White Society in the Antebellum South p.194 © Longm 1985, reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Ltd. NEBRASKA TERRITORY Rive Big Blue Juniatta Manhatten Pawnee Wabaunsee Ft.
... in 1860 Source: After Collins, B. (1985), White Society in the Antebellum South p.194 © Longm 1985, reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Ltd. NEBRASKA TERRITORY Rive Big Blue Juniatta Manhatten Pawnee Wabaunsee Ft.
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... ANTEBELLUM. REPUBLIC. DOI: 10.4324/9781315838847-2. National. development. and. national. identity. Viewed from the perspective of the 1880s the United States was one of the great success stories of the nineteenth century. 'The old nations ...
... ANTEBELLUM. REPUBLIC. DOI: 10.4324/9781315838847-2. National. development. and. national. identity. Viewed from the perspective of the 1880s the United States was one of the great success stories of the nineteenth century. 'The old nations ...
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... antebellum Republic. It is certainly true that the Revolution had imbued Americans with a deep distrust of centralized power. To an extent, their tendency to link power with despotism had been institutionalized by the 1787 federal ...
... antebellum Republic. It is certainly true that the Revolution had imbued Americans with a deep distrust of centralized power. To an extent, their tendency to link power with despotism had been institutionalized by the 1787 federal ...
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... antebellum politicians. Other vital central functions included national defense, control of external commerce, broad oversight of the money supply, and the administration of the territories (thinly populated areas of the West that were ...
... antebellum politicians. Other vital central functions included national defense, control of external commerce, broad oversight of the money supply, and the administration of the territories (thinly populated areas of the West that were ...
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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