Civil War America: Making a Nation, 1848-1877

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Routledge, 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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Acknowledgements
Note on the text
Slavery Expansion 184852
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
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Robert Cook is a senior lecturer in History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of a number of books on American history including Sweet Land of Liberty? The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century (Longman)

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