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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... Washington , DC , but reserved the rest to the individual states . The intention of the Founding Fathers was to create a balanced federal system in which power was diffused , firstly , between Washington and the states , and secondly ...
... Washington , DC , but reserved the rest to the individual states . The intention of the Founding Fathers was to create a balanced federal system in which power was diffused , firstly , between Washington and the states , and secondly ...
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... Washington , for example , administered the nation's postal service . Every village , town , and city had a federal post office , making that building ( and its incumbent postmaster ) the most ubiquitous tangible symbols of national ...
... Washington , for example , administered the nation's postal service . Every village , town , and city had a federal post office , making that building ( and its incumbent postmaster ) the most ubiquitous tangible symbols of national ...
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... Washington , the first president of the United States and the victorious commander of the Continental Army . Mason Locke Weems's Life of Washington ( 1809 ) was required reading for every child growing up in the early nineteenth century ...
... Washington , the first president of the United States and the victorious commander of the Continental Army . Mason Locke Weems's Life of Washington ( 1809 ) was required reading for every child growing up in the early nineteenth century ...
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... Washington and Jefferson were famously ambivalent about the insti- tution and a state constitutional convention in Virginia seriously considered the possibility of abolition as late as 1830-31 . The enormous profits to be garnered from ...
... Washington and Jefferson were famously ambivalent about the insti- tution and a state constitutional convention in Virginia seriously considered the possibility of abolition as late as 1830-31 . The enormous profits to be garnered from ...
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... Washington , DC , in 1841 , it was almost inevitable that he would choose to relocate in New York . As well as brilliantly articulating the Anglophobic and expansionist desires of the late Jacksonian period , O'Sullivan's magazine ...
... Washington , DC , in 1841 , it was almost inevitable that he would choose to relocate in New York . As well as brilliantly articulating the Anglophobic and expansionist desires of the late Jacksonian period , O'Sullivan's magazine ...
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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