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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... slavery limited industrial growth in the deep South by channeling surplus capital into land and slaves , the generally high returns on cotton and other staple products indicate that most planters were motivated primarily by the desire ...
... slavery limited industrial growth in the deep South by channeling surplus capital into land and slaves , the generally high returns on cotton and other staple products indicate that most planters were motivated primarily by the desire ...
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... Slavery , ran the free - soil critique , was both morally and economically retrogressive . Southerners like Davis found such attacks not only insulting but also mystifying for the simple reason that their region was patently not laggard ...
... Slavery , ran the free - soil critique , was both morally and economically retrogressive . Southerners like Davis found such attacks not only insulting but also mystifying for the simple reason that their region was patently not laggard ...
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... slavery . For all these deep social fissures , however , southern whites had one thing in common . By 1850 they could all agree that slavery was the main- stay of southern society . As William H. Trescott , a South Carolina cotton ...
... slavery . For all these deep social fissures , however , southern whites had one thing in common . By 1850 they could all agree that slavery was the main- stay of southern society . As William H. Trescott , a South Carolina cotton ...
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... slaves in the same decade considered the possibility that slavery itself might be dismantled . Why should they have done ? Slavery underpinned white privilege , for their color was the most important thing that southern whites had in ...
... slaves in the same decade considered the possibility that slavery itself might be dismantled . Why should they have done ? Slavery underpinned white privilege , for their color was the most important thing that southern whites had in ...
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... slavery resulted in northern reform movements such as abolitionism and women's rights being labeled entirely disreputable . Even the homegrown temperance movement , heavily reliant on female involvement , had fizzled out by the 1850s ...
... slavery resulted in northern reform movements such as abolitionism and women's rights being labeled entirely disreputable . Even the homegrown temperance movement , heavily reliant on female involvement , had fizzled out by the 1850s ...
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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