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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... country's two wars against the British, militia officers, directors of the local school district, Augusta school teachers, the brass band from the coastal town of Bath, engineers from the fire department, the men of the Atlantic Number ...
... country's two wars against the British, militia officers, directors of the local school district, Augusta school teachers, the brass band from the coastal town of Bath, engineers from the fire department, the men of the Atlantic Number ...
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... country. Nor can their preference for terms such as 'Union' and 'Republic' be taken as evidence that they had little sense of national patriotism. In fact Americans were noted during the 1840s for their constant self-promotion — a trait ...
... country. Nor can their preference for terms such as 'Union' and 'Republic' be taken as evidence that they had little sense of national patriotism. In fact Americans were noted during the 1840s for their constant self-promotion — a trait ...
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... country's relative youth. As a young people, in terms of both the age profile of the population and the length of the country's existence, the Americans were less than sure of themselves. Culturally they remained shackled to the former ...
... country's relative youth. As a young people, in terms of both the age profile of the population and the length of the country's existence, the Americans were less than sure of themselves. Culturally they remained shackled to the former ...
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... country's population in 1850? The free minority of 400,000 could and did insist that their predecessors had played a positive role in the early stages of the Republic, fighting for the United States in the Revolution and the War of 1812 ...
... country's population in 1850? The free minority of 400,000 could and did insist that their predecessors had played a positive role in the early stages of the Republic, fighting for the United States in the Revolution and the War of 1812 ...
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... country . ' The American in Europe , if a thinking mind ' , she wrote from Italy , ' can only become more American . ' This was not to say , she continued , that it was not a pleasure in some respects to be in the Old World : ' Although ...
... country . ' The American in Europe , if a thinking mind ' , she wrote from Italy , ' can only become more American . ' This was not to say , she continued , that it was not a pleasure in some respects to be in the Old World : ' Although ...
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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