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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... in particular contributed to the genesis of this book. Bill Dusinberre fired me with a fascination for nineteenth-century American history when I was an undergraduate at the University of Warwick. He has continued to do so in numerous ways ...
... in particular contributed to the genesis of this book. Bill Dusinberre fired me with a fascination for nineteenth-century American history when I was an undergraduate at the University of Warwick. He has continued to do so in numerous ways ...
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... At some point during the festivities (history does not record precisely when) the diners were forced to run for cover by a burst of rain. More showers interrupted both a subsequent contest between the fire companies and the last of the ...
... At some point during the festivities (history does not record precisely when) the diners were forced to run for cover by a burst of rain. More showers interrupted both a subsequent contest between the fire companies and the last of the ...
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... on reading sensational press reports of early military victories during the Mexican War.2 In fairness, Americans had plenty of competition in the global A Robber and a Jailer: The Antebellum Republic National development and national ...
... on reading sensational press reports of early military victories during the Mexican War.2 In fairness, Americans had plenty of competition in the global A Robber and a Jailer: The Antebellum Republic National development and national ...
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... During the Civil War southerners assumed that an embargo on cotton exports could be used to secure Great Britain's intervention on the side of the Confederacy. They were wrong but their mistake was understandable given the sheer volume ...
... During the Civil War southerners assumed that an embargo on cotton exports could be used to secure Great Britain's intervention on the side of the Confederacy. They were wrong but their mistake was understandable given the sheer volume ...
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... In a society in which all the cards of power were stacked heavily in favor of whites, North American slaves seldom rebelled in large numbers like their peers in the ... during the antebellum period) roughly one first marriage in three.
... In a society in which all the cards of power were stacked heavily in favor of whites, North American slaves seldom rebelled in large numbers like their peers in the ... during the antebellum period) roughly one first marriage in three.
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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