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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... southern responses to other societies and cultures reveal , it makes little ... whites with the maintenance of the existing race - based social order ... southern white families possessed slaves , slave ownership was relatively widespread ...
... southern responses to other societies and cultures reveal , it makes little ... whites with the maintenance of the existing race - based social order ... southern white families possessed slaves , slave ownership was relatively widespread ...
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... 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 informs all our modes of life ...
... 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 informs all our modes of life ...
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... white privilege , for their color was the most important thing that southern whites had in common . General emancipation would not only deprive the slaveholders themselves of the principal source of their elevated posi- tion in society ...
... white privilege , for their color was the most important thing that southern whites had in common . General emancipation would not only deprive the slaveholders themselves of the principal source of their elevated posi- tion in society ...
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... southern white women lacked not only the urban networks essential for the promotion of social reform , but also the ... whites would agree on everything . Far from it . Common whites were tenacious defenders of their rights and , away ...
... southern white women lacked not only the urban networks essential for the promotion of social reform , but also the ... whites would agree on everything . Far from it . Common whites were tenacious defenders of their rights and , away ...
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Contents
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5 | |
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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