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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... North Carolina and Virginia , chafed at the rule of slaveholding and com- mercial elites based in the more economically mature areas of their states . The urban bourgeoisie often clashed with that portion of the planter class which ...
... North Carolina and Virginia , chafed at the rule of slaveholding and com- mercial elites based in the more economically mature areas of their states . The urban bourgeoisie often clashed with that portion of the planter class which ...
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... North Carolina , for example , 85 percent of state legislators were slaveowners despite the fact that less than a third of white families possessed slaves . Only 3 percent of white families belonged to the planter class , yet more than ...
... North Carolina , for example , 85 percent of state legislators were slaveowners despite the fact that less than a third of white families possessed slaves . Only 3 percent of white families belonged to the planter class , yet more than ...
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... North did not exist as a formal political entity in 1850 any more than the South , though some antislavery men had already started to call for unity in the face of what they saw as mounting southern aggression . The free states ( or ...
... North did not exist as a formal political entity in 1850 any more than the South , though some antislavery men had already started to call for unity in the face of what they saw as mounting southern aggression . The free states ( or ...
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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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