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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... northern ironmaster or railroad magnate. The fundamental Americanness of the planter class was most visible when its representative men encountered societies outside the United States. On the grand tour of Europe they were generally as ...
... northern ironmaster or railroad magnate. The fundamental Americanness of the planter class was most visible when its representative men encountered societies outside the United States. On the grand tour of Europe they were generally as ...
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... northern reform movements such as abolitionism and women's rights being labeled entirely disreputable . Even the homegrown temperance movement , heavily reliant on female involvement , had fizzled out by the 1850s . Wealthy cotton lords ...
... northern reform movements such as abolitionism and women's rights being labeled entirely disreputable . Even the homegrown temperance movement , heavily reliant on female involvement , had fizzled out by the 1850s . Wealthy cotton lords ...
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... northern, nonslaveholding states posed a concrete danger to the social stability of the South. The main source of this perceived threat was a belt of states running from thickly wooded Maine on the northeastern border with Canada ...
... northern, nonslaveholding states posed a concrete danger to the social stability of the South. The main source of this perceived threat was a belt of states running from thickly wooded Maine on the northeastern border with Canada ...
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... northern free labor and southern slavery had met with sharp opposition from northern working men in the Jacksonian period. By 1850 workers were beginning to come to terms with a system which (and here the contrast with slavery was ...
... northern free labor and southern slavery had met with sharp opposition from northern working men in the Jacksonian period. By 1850 workers were beginning to come to terms with a system which (and here the contrast with slavery was ...
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... northern whites by 1850. The antebellum northern working class was ethnically diverse. Indeed, a major fault line existed between American skilled workers and European-born or non- white unskilled laborers. By contrast, the amorphous ...
... northern whites by 1850. The antebellum northern working class was ethnically diverse. Indeed, a major fault line existed between American skilled workers and European-born or non- white unskilled laborers. By contrast, the amorphous ...
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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