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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... Slavery and the antebellum South Life in the ' free states ' The second party system 2. Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War : Slavery Expansion , 1848–52 The political impact of the Mexican War The presidential election of 1848 The Compromise ...
... Slavery and the antebellum South Life in the ' free states ' The second party system 2. Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War : Slavery Expansion , 1848–52 The political impact of the Mexican War The presidential election of 1848 The Compromise ...
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... slavery ( blamed by many for its role in starting the Mexican War ) might pose a threat to the nation's welfare . Among them was Margaret Fuller , one of antebellum America's most visible and articulate feminists . Having been on the ...
... slavery ( blamed by many for its role in starting the Mexican War ) might pose a threat to the nation's welfare . Among them was Margaret Fuller , one of antebellum America's most visible and articulate feminists . Having been on the ...
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... slavery. In just over a decade after Fuller's tragic death at sea in 1850, billowing controversy over the fate of slavery would snap the attachment that many southerners felt toward the wider national community. In order to understand ...
... slavery. In just over a decade after Fuller's tragic death at sea in 1850, billowing controversy over the fate of slavery would snap the attachment that many southerners felt toward the wider national community. In order to understand ...
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... slavery must be regarded as an important cause of the war itself). Yet southern slaveholders were quite prepared to fight alongside nonslaveholders for the United States in the late 1840s. In other words, if there were fundamental ...
... slavery must be regarded as an important cause of the war itself). Yet southern slaveholders were quite prepared to fight alongside nonslaveholders for the United States in the late 1840s. In other words, if there were fundamental ...
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... slaves were bound to their masters by a combination of factors. Proslavery propagandists maintained that their ... slavery was not just about physical coercion, though the threat and reality of white violence certainly underpinned ...
... slaves were bound to their masters by a combination of factors. Proslavery propagandists maintained that their ... slavery was not just about physical coercion, though the threat and reality of white violence certainly underpinned ...
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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