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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... that the United States was nearly destroyed by the sanguinary events of the early 1860s, it is tempting to conclude that the antebellum Republic was not a viable national entity. Hindsight, however, is a notoriously dangerous tool for ...
... that the United States was nearly destroyed by the sanguinary events of the early 1860s, it is tempting to conclude that the antebellum Republic was not a viable national entity. Hindsight, however, is a notoriously dangerous tool for ...
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... that, the United States was rapidly emerging as a significant player on the world stage. The best evidence for this development was the fact that after the War of 1812 the British began to accept the primacy of the United States in ...
... that, the United States was rapidly emerging as a significant player on the world stage. The best evidence for this development was the fact that after the War of 1812 the British began to accept the primacy of the United States in ...
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... that the very strength of the Republic might lie in its ethnic pluralism was a compelling one for some antebellum Americans . Among them was Herman Melville's semi - autobiographical character , the seaman Wellingborough Redburn . There ...
... that the very strength of the Republic might lie in its ethnic pluralism was a compelling one for some antebellum Americans . Among them was Herman Melville's semi - autobiographical character , the seaman Wellingborough Redburn . There ...
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... dependent on capitalist labor relations. There is no doubt that the imperative to protect slavery was the central factor in the South's decision to secede (and since that decision was contested forcibly Slavery and the antebellum South.
... dependent on capitalist labor relations. There is no doubt that the imperative to protect slavery was the central factor in the South's decision to secede (and since that decision was contested forcibly Slavery and the antebellum South.
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... that the northern, nonslaveholding states posed a concrete danger to the social stability of the South. The main source of this perceived threat was a belt of states running from thickly wooded Maine on the northeastern border with ...
... that the northern, nonslaveholding states posed a concrete danger to the social stability of the South. The main source of this perceived threat was a belt of states running from thickly wooded Maine on the northeastern border with ...
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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