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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Making a Nation, 1848-1877 Robert Cook. In fairness, Americans had plenty of competition in the global bragging stakes and they did indeed have much to ... The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the war with Mexico in 1848 added half.
Making a Nation, 1848-1877 Robert Cook. In fairness, Americans had plenty of competition in the global bragging stakes and they did indeed have much to ... The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the war with Mexico in 1848 added half.
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Making a Nation, 1848-1877 Robert Cook. which ended the war with Mexico in 1848 added half a million square miles to the national domain and confirmed the United States' existence as a continental power (see Map 1). Commercial cotton and ...
Making a Nation, 1848-1877 Robert Cook. which ended the war with Mexico in 1848 added half a million square miles to the national domain and confirmed the United States' existence as a continental power (see Map 1). Commercial cotton and ...
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Making a Nation, 1848-1877 Robert Cook. National identity, like an ... The nature of this collective identity shifts over time in response to internal changes, external forces, and events in the way that individual social identity evolves ...
Making a Nation, 1848-1877 Robert Cook. National identity, like an ... The nature of this collective identity shifts over time in response to internal changes, external forces, and events in the way that individual social identity evolves ...
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Making a Nation, 1848-1877 Robert Cook. This was predictable fare. Many Americans at this juncture in their history denigrated Europe in this fashion in order then to extol the virtues of their democratic republic. At the close of the ...
Making a Nation, 1848-1877 Robert Cook. This was predictable fare. Many Americans at this juncture in their history denigrated Europe in this fashion in order then to extol the virtues of their democratic republic. At the close of the ...
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Making a Nation, 1848-1877 Robert Cook. insulting but also mystifying for the simple reason that their region was patently not laggard when compared with virtually every country in the world. Only Great Britain, the Low Countries and parts ...
Making a Nation, 1848-1877 Robert Cook. insulting but also mystifying for the simple reason that their region was patently not laggard when compared with virtually every country in the world. Only Great Britain, the Low Countries and parts ...
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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