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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... social order . Herein lay the seeds of secession and civil war . Just 12 percent of the 350,000 slaveholders resident in the South at the time of secession qualify for the description of planter under the conventional modern definition ...
... social order . Herein lay the seeds of secession and civil war . Just 12 percent of the 350,000 slaveholders resident in the South at the time of secession qualify for the description of planter under the conventional modern definition ...
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... 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 planter , put it : ' Slavery ...
... 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 planter , put it : ' Slavery ...
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... social scale - slavery imposed on southern women a degree of conformity to patriarchal norms that did not prevail even in the undeniably sexist ( but more plural ) North . Plantation mistresses sometimes railed against the penchant of ...
... social scale - slavery imposed on southern women a degree of conformity to patriarchal norms that did not prevail even in the undeniably sexist ( but more plural ) North . Plantation mistresses sometimes railed against the penchant of ...
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... social reform , but also the will . Whereas local charitable activity was widely practiced by evangelical women , the imperative to preserve slavery resulted in northern reform movements such as abolitionism and women's rights being ...
... social reform , but also the will . Whereas local charitable activity was widely practiced by evangelical women , the imperative to preserve slavery resulted in northern reform movements such as abolitionism and women's rights being ...
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... social order was condi- tioned by the existence of black slavery.30 Life in the ' free states ' By the late 1840s growing numbers of southerners agreed with Calhoun's contention that the northern , nonslaveholding states posed a ...
... social order was condi- tioned by the existence of black slavery.30 Life in the ' free states ' By the late 1840s growing numbers of southerners agreed with Calhoun's contention that the northern , nonslaveholding states posed a ...
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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