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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... slaveholders were quite prepared to fight alongside nonslaveholders for the United States in the late 1840s. In other words, if there were fundamental differences between the sections they did not necessarily mean that domestic strife ...
... slaveholders were quite prepared to fight alongside nonslaveholders for the United States in the late 1840s. In other words, if there were fundamental differences between the sections they did not necessarily mean that domestic strife ...
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... slaveholders. For every kind master in the historical record, there is at least one monster like Charles Manigault, a wealthy Georgia rice planter whose compulsive efforts to minimize spending and maximize workloads resulted in the loss ...
... slaveholders. For every kind master in the historical record, there is at least one monster like Charles Manigault, a wealthy Georgia rice planter whose compulsive efforts to minimize spending and maximize workloads resulted in the loss ...
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... slaveholders stood at the apex of a backward society. The group of large slaveholders which exercised disproportionate influence in the region was not the barrier to nineteenth-century progress that some external critics of slavery ...
... slaveholders stood at the apex of a backward society. The group of large slaveholders which exercised disproportionate influence in the region was not the barrier to nineteenth-century progress that some external critics of slavery ...
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... slaveholders were less enthusiastic about running up public debts to pay for what they regarded as grandiose schemes of internal improvement, though many shared Calhoun's enthusiasm for railroads. While slavery limited industrial growth ...
... slaveholders were less enthusiastic about running up public debts to pay for what they regarded as grandiose schemes of internal improvement, though many shared Calhoun's enthusiasm for railroads. While slavery limited industrial growth ...
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... slaveholders resided in the staple growing districts of states like Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. Inevitably, friction often characterized relations between planters, small slaveholders, and nonslaveholders (a diverse group which ...
... slaveholders resided in the staple growing districts of states like Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. Inevitably, friction often characterized relations between planters, small slaveholders, and nonslaveholders (a diverse group which ...
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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