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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... forces and their movements with permission of the publisher. Map 7 Gold-Rush California Source: Map 6 The Battle of Gettysburg. To Emmitsburg Round top Confederate forces and their movements 1km ᅡ 1/2 mile Source : After Parish , P.J. ...
... forces and their movements with permission of the publisher. Map 7 Gold-Rush California Source: Map 6 The Battle of Gettysburg. To Emmitsburg Round top Confederate forces and their movements 1km ᅡ 1/2 mile Source : After Parish , P.J. ...
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... forces which further sustained that ability. Many factors enabled the United States to function and prosper as a ... force in the lives of most Americans in the late 1840s and early 1850s, American citizens were nevertheless affected ...
... forces which further sustained that ability. Many factors enabled the United States to function and prosper as a ... force in the lives of most Americans in the late 1840s and early 1850s, American citizens were nevertheless affected ...
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... forces existed in the antebellum Republic. The United States was one of the largest free-trade areas on the globe in the nineteenth century. The concomitant growth of a genuinely national market was largely a product of advances in ...
... forces existed in the antebellum Republic. The United States was one of the largest free-trade areas on the globe in the nineteenth century. The concomitant growth of a genuinely national market was largely a product of advances in ...
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... forces, and events in the way that individual social identity evolves with age, with social interaction, and with landmark changes associated with the life cycle. For many whites, particularly successful white males, national identity ...
... forces, and events in the way that individual social identity evolves with age, with social interaction, and with landmark changes associated with the life cycle. For many whites, particularly successful white males, national identity ...
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... forces. However, buoyant domestic and foreign demand for American grain and widespread use of evolving technology such as the reaper- mower made midwestern farming a prosperous enterprise in the late 1840s and 1850s. When the Crimean ...
... forces. However, buoyant domestic and foreign demand for American grain and widespread use of evolving technology such as the reaper- mower made midwestern farming a prosperous enterprise in the late 1840s and 1850s. When the Crimean ...
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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