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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... politician , amplified on this theme by lauding the public enterprises of the era . He regarded them all , he said , ' as springing from that great enterprise of the Revolutionary Patriots ' which secured not only independence but also ...
... politician , amplified on this theme by lauding the public enterprises of the era . He regarded them all , he said , ' as springing from that great enterprise of the Revolutionary Patriots ' which secured not only independence but also ...
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... politicians. Other vital central functions included national defense, control of external commerce, broad oversight of the money supply, and the administration of the territories (thinly populated areas of the West that were being ...
... politicians. Other vital central functions included national defense, control of external commerce, broad oversight of the money supply, and the administration of the territories (thinly populated areas of the West that were being ...
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... 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 illusory. The Midwest could not rise above the sectional ...
... 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 illusory. The Midwest could not rise above the sectional ...
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... politicians were men. Fading notions of republican motherhood and more modern middle-class and evangelical notions of domesticity helped to place heavy constraints on antebellum American women. However, it would be wrong to assume that ...
... politicians were men. Fading notions of republican motherhood and more modern middle-class and evangelical notions of domesticity helped to place heavy constraints on antebellum American women. However, it would be wrong to assume that ...
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... politicians that credit, banks, paper money, and high tariffs threatened the very fabric of the Republic, producing concentrations of economic power, boom-bust cycles in which ordinary people suffered the most, and an unhealthy ...
... politicians that credit, banks, paper money, and high tariffs threatened the very fabric of the Republic, producing concentrations of economic power, boom-bust cycles in which ordinary people suffered the most, and an unhealthy ...
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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