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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... vote, equipped with only limited property rights and, at least in ideological terms, restricted to the private sphere by a pervasive cult of domesticity. What was unique about their situation was that slavery generated a resolutely ...
... vote, equipped with only limited property rights and, at least in ideological terms, restricted to the private sphere by a pervasive cult of domesticity. What was unique about their situation was that slavery generated a resolutely ...
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... voting regularly and enthusiastically in elections, and sometimes by organizing unions and promoting strike action ... vote, all politicians were men. Fading notions of republican motherhood and more modern middle-class and evangelical ...
... voting regularly and enthusiastically in elections, and sometimes by organizing unions and promoting strike action ... vote, all politicians were men. Fading notions of republican motherhood and more modern middle-class and evangelical ...
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... vote , thousands of northern women played a crucial role in promoting temperance , antislavery , and female education - one of their principal defenses being that such efforts stemmed from their sex's duty to protect and improve the ...
... vote , thousands of northern women played a crucial role in promoting temperance , antislavery , and female education - one of their principal defenses being that such efforts stemmed from their sex's duty to protect and improve the ...
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... vote Whig in part because the organization inherited some of the Federalists' pronounced Anglophilia. The Democrats' vigorous advocacy of democracy, states' rights, limited government, and religious toleration appealed to a rather ...
... vote Whig in part because the organization inherited some of the Federalists' pronounced Anglophilia. The Democrats' vigorous advocacy of democracy, states' rights, limited government, and religious toleration appealed to a rather ...
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... votes in both sections — hence the quadrennial search for an 'available' candidate who could transcend narrow sectional prejudices and campaign as a genuinely national figure. Internal party factionalism and the related struggle for ...
... votes in both sections — hence the quadrennial search for an 'available' candidate who could transcend narrow sectional prejudices and campaign as a genuinely national figure. Internal party factionalism and the related struggle for ...
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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