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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... victory , 1861-62 The triumph of Union arms , 1863-65 5. Our Deliverance Is Nigh : The Quest for Southern Independence Born in the CSA ?: The unusual case of southern nationalism Confederate mobilization and state formation Onward ...
... victory , 1861-62 The triumph of Union arms , 1863-65 5. Our Deliverance Is Nigh : The Quest for Southern Independence Born in the CSA ?: The unusual case of southern nationalism Confederate mobilization and state formation Onward ...
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... Victory! 7. War by Any Other Name: The Struggle Over Reconstruction, 1865–76 The aftermath of war Congressional Reconstruction Black life in the postwar South The South redeemed 8. Land of Gold: The Far West in the Mid-Nineteenth ...
... Victory! 7. War by Any Other Name: The Struggle Over Reconstruction, 1865–76 The aftermath of war Congressional Reconstruction Black life in the postwar South The South redeemed 8. Land of Gold: The Far West in the Mid-Nineteenth ...
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... victory for the Whigs in the 1840 presidential contest, their first success at that level. Although the refusal of President John Tyler, a states' rights Virginian, to embrace Clay's project helped the Democrats to reassert their ...
... victory for the Whigs in the 1840 presidential contest, their first success at that level. Although the refusal of President John Tyler, a states' rights Virginian, to embrace Clay's project helped the Democrats to reassert their ...
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... victory in November in large measure because defections to the Liberty party had lost Clay the critical state of New York. Although three-quarters of northern Democrats voted to terminate the Gag Rule the following month, only the ...
... victory in November in large measure because defections to the Liberty party had lost Clay the critical state of New York. Although three-quarters of northern Democrats voted to terminate the Gag Rule the following month, only the ...
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... victory would bring new problems . However , it was the ' Sage of Concord ' , Ralph Waldo Emerson , who summarized most memorably the likely consequences . The conquest , said Emerson , would result in disaster : ' it will be as the man ...
... victory would bring new problems . However , it was the ' Sage of Concord ' , Ralph Waldo Emerson , who summarized most memorably the likely consequences . The conquest , said Emerson , would result in disaster : ' it will be as the man ...
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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