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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... Reform, Reaction and Reunion at the Dawn of the Gilded Age The economy and society of postwar America Organizing for reform Faltering steps to reconciliation The electoral crisis of 1876–77 Conclusion The Proving Time: The United States ...
... Reform, Reaction and Reunion at the Dawn of the Gilded Age The economy and society of postwar America Organizing for reform Faltering steps to reconciliation The electoral crisis of 1876–77 Conclusion The Proving Time: The United States ...
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... reform which many observers, Alexis de Tocqueville among them, had singled out as one of the most distinctive features of American life. Although the steady growth of Protestantism was resisted by secular republicans, the pervasive ...
... reform which many observers, Alexis de Tocqueville among them, had singled out as one of the most distinctive features of American life. Although the steady growth of Protestantism was resisted by secular republicans, the pervasive ...
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... reform. The controversy over paternalism has fed into the heated scholarly debate over the extent to which the South differed from the modernizing, capitalist North. Much depends here on how one defines capitalism, a notoriously ...
... reform. The controversy over paternalism has fed into the heated scholarly debate over the extent to which the South differed from the modernizing, capitalist North. Much depends here on how one defines capitalism, a notoriously ...
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... sometimes opposed its developing plans for 'reform' (a catch-all term which included calls for public schools, manufacturing, and tighter moral discipline). Planters worried about the possibility that their dominance might be.
... sometimes opposed its developing plans for 'reform' (a catch-all term which included calls for public schools, manufacturing, and tighter moral discipline). Planters worried about the possibility that their dominance might be.
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... reform movements of all kinds during the years preceding the Civil War . Such evidence does not exist . Living in a rural slave society , southern white women lacked not only the urban networks essential for the promotion of social reform ...
... reform movements of all kinds during the years preceding the Civil War . Such evidence does not exist . Living in a rural slave society , southern white women lacked not only the urban networks essential for the promotion of social reform ...
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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