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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... Americans in the late 1840s and early 1850s , American citizens were nevertheless affected by its operations in several spheres . Washington , for example , administered the nation's postal service . Every village , town , and city had ...
... Americans in the late 1840s and early 1850s , American citizens were nevertheless affected by its operations in several spheres . Washington , for example , administered the nation's postal service . Every village , town , and city had ...
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... American life . Although the steady growth of Protestantism was resisted by secular republicans , the per- vasive influence of evangelical Christianity joined with economic change to facilitate a metamorphosis of traditional republican ...
... American life . Although the steady growth of Protestantism was resisted by secular republicans , the per- vasive influence of evangelical Christianity joined with economic change to facilitate a metamorphosis of traditional republican ...
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... American insecurity than the fact that the children of Empire had not yet matured to full adulthood . High geographical mobility , a relatively democratic political system , economic change , widespread religious enthusiasm , massive ...
... American insecurity than the fact that the children of Empire had not yet matured to full adulthood . High geographical mobility , a relatively democratic political system , economic change , widespread religious enthusiasm , massive ...
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... Americans . How did an impoverished Irishman living in the slums of New York or Philadelphia manage to define himself convincingly as an American ( or even an Irish American ) when large numbers of the local popula- tion regarded him as ...
... Americans . How did an impoverished Irishman living in the slums of New York or Philadelphia manage to define himself convincingly as an American ( or even an Irish American ) when large numbers of the local popula- tion regarded him as ...
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... American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world ... [ O ] ur blood is as the flood of the Amazon , made up of a thousand noble currents all pouring into one . We are not a nation , so much as a world ... .11 Hindsight ...
... American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world ... [ O ] ur blood is as the flood of the Amazon , made up of a thousand noble currents all pouring into one . We are not a nation , so much as a world ... .11 Hindsight ...
Contents
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The Politics of Slavery Expansion 184852 | 42 |
3 Political Crises of the 1850s | 73 |
Secession and Civil War | 114 |
The Quest for Southern Independence | 158 |
The Union in Wartime | 191 |
The Struggle over Reconstruction 186576 | 229 |
The Far West in the MidNineteenth Century | 269 |
9 Reform Reaction and Reunion at the Dawn of the Gilded Age | 302 |
The United States in the Era of Civil War | 339 |
Select Bibliography | 343 |
Index | 351 |
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