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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... the Civil War can claim to be self-reliant. As readers of the following chapters will be only too aware, I owe a great deal to many renowned scholars for their work on broad and specific aspects of one of the most studied periods in ...
... the Civil War can claim to be self-reliant. As readers of the following chapters will be only too aware, I owe a great deal to many renowned scholars for their work on broad and specific aspects of one of the most studied periods in ...
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... the Civil War by James M. McPherson, copyright 1988 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc. (McPherson, J.M. 1988); Map 7 redrawn from Gold Dust and Gunsmoke: Tales of the Gold Rush Outlaws ...
... the Civil War by James M. McPherson, copyright 1988 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc. (McPherson, J.M. 1988); Map 7 redrawn from Gold Dust and Gunsmoke: Tales of the Gold Rush Outlaws ...
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... The Civil War was the great watershed in American history. Without the unity it so dearly bought, Carnegie's express train of a nation might have been derailed on its way out of the depot. Knowing that the United States was nearly ...
... The Civil War was the great watershed in American history. Without the unity it so dearly bought, Carnegie's express train of a nation might have been derailed on its way out of the depot. Knowing that the United States was nearly ...
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... the Civil War began. Popular pride in the achievements of the young nation might have been irksome to some, but it seemed fully justified by the material facts. Historians seeking to explain the carnage of the 1860s often stress the 4 ...
... the Civil War began. Popular pride in the achievements of the young nation might have been irksome to some, but it seemed fully justified by the material facts. Historians seeking to explain the carnage of the 1860s often stress the 4 ...
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... the Civil War began, commentators argued that some kind of conflict between the two dominant regions (or 'sections') of the United States was inevitable, given the very different labor systems on which the economies of the North and ...
... the Civil War began, commentators argued that some kind of conflict between the two dominant regions (or 'sections') of the United States was inevitable, given the very different labor systems on which the economies of the North and ...
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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