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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... political impact of the Mexican War The presidential election of 1848 The Compromise of 1850 The Democrats ascendant , 1850-52 3. Political Crises of the 1850s The Kansas - Nebraska Act Politics in flux The Republican threat The eclipse ...
... political impact of the Mexican War The presidential election of 1848 The Compromise of 1850 The Democrats ascendant , 1850-52 3. Political Crises of the 1850s The Kansas - Nebraska Act Politics in flux The Republican threat The eclipse ...
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... politics , Greeley employed her to send back dispatches for the Tribune . Her eighteenth letter , which appeared on ... political existence , our position toward Europe , as to Literature and the Arts , is still that of a colony , and ...
... politics , Greeley employed her to send back dispatches for the Tribune . Her eighteenth letter , which appeared on ... political existence , our position toward Europe , as to Literature and the Arts , is still that of a colony , and ...
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... political office throughout the deep South. Perhaps, as Bruce Collins asserts, slaveholders failed to inspire organized opposition precisely because they did not act as a cohesive unit. However, their political visibility alone is ...
... political office throughout the deep South. Perhaps, as Bruce Collins asserts, slaveholders failed to inspire organized opposition precisely because they did not act as a cohesive unit. However, their political visibility alone is ...
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... political atmosphere of the late 1840s when local politicians such as Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois were able to yoke the expansionist rhetoric of Manifest Destiny to the cause of national unity. Yet ultimately they proved to be ...
... political atmosphere of the late 1840s when local politicians such as Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois were able to yoke the expansionist rhetoric of Manifest Destiny to the cause of national unity. Yet ultimately they proved to be ...
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... political power in the antebellum South, northern political life was falling increasingly under the influence of the section's urban middle class. There was, of course, a heavily gendered aspect to the distribution of political power in ...
... political power in the antebellum South, northern political life was falling increasingly under the influence of the section's urban middle class. There was, of course, a heavily gendered aspect to the distribution of political power in ...
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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