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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... whites in the antebellum period thought of themselves not only as Americans but also as , say , Georgians and southerners ... southern Confederacy , fought bravely against the Mexicans at the battle of Buena Vista in February 1847 . He did so ...
... whites in the antebellum period thought of themselves not only as Americans but also as , say , Georgians and southerners ... southern Confederacy , fought bravely against the Mexicans at the battle of Buena Vista in February 1847 . He did so ...
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... southern whites whose economic livelihood depended on the maintenance of chattel slavery. In just over a decade ... southerners felt toward the wider national community. In order to understand why slavery posed such a threat to the white ...
... southern whites whose economic livelihood depended on the maintenance of chattel slavery. In just over a decade ... southerners felt toward the wider national community. In order to understand why slavery posed such a threat to the white ...
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... southern whites' commitment to slave labor. The United States dominated the global market for high quality short-staple cotton. During the Civil War southerners assumed that an embargo on cotton exports could be used to secure Great ...
... southern whites' commitment to slave labor. The United States dominated the global market for high quality short-staple cotton. During the Civil War southerners assumed that an embargo on cotton exports could be used to secure Great ...
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... white violence certainly underpinned it. Southern law and southern church leaders sought to hold masters to minimum standards of treatment, while high slave prices before the Civil War meant that it made little economic sense to ...
... white violence certainly underpinned it. Southern law and southern church leaders sought to hold masters to minimum standards of treatment, while high slave prices before the Civil War meant that it made little economic sense to ...
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... southern churchmen, fearful of God's impending judgment upon a sinful people, implored their fellow whites to improve their treatment of slaves. If paternalism was so integral a factor in southern life, one wonders why prominent local ...
... southern churchmen, fearful of God's impending judgment upon a sinful people, implored their fellow whites to improve their treatment of slaves. If paternalism was so integral a factor in southern life, one wonders why prominent local ...
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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