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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... troops well disposed to do it whenever they should be told . The mob were in a bitter bad humor but a good deal frightened ... Some of the cavalry were badly hit with paving stones , but as soon as the Unwashed were informed that unless ...
... troops well disposed to do it whenever they should be told . The mob were in a bitter bad humor but a good deal frightened ... Some of the cavalry were badly hit with paving stones , but as soon as the Unwashed were informed that unless ...
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... troops were dispatched to the disputed international border along the Rio Grande in January 1846. Mexico resisted, Polk had a casus belli and within two years the United States had defeated its weaker southern neighbor on the ...
... troops were dispatched to the disputed international border along the Rio Grande in January 1846. Mexico resisted, Polk had a casus belli and within two years the United States had defeated its weaker southern neighbor on the ...
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... well for the Polk administration . US troops reached Mexico City within 16 months of the war's outset. The conflict produced Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War: Slavery Expansion, 1848–52 The political impact of the Mexican.
... well for the Polk administration . US troops reached Mexico City within 16 months of the war's outset. The conflict produced Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War: Slavery Expansion, 1848–52 The political impact of the Mexican.
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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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