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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.
| ISBN | 058238107X | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780582381070
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 630 | | Publisher | Pearson Education Limited | | Published in | Harlow | | Imprint | Longman | | Series title | Longman History of America | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780582381087 | | Publication date | 31 Mar 2003 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Library of Congress | E | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 973.6 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 408 | |
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| | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Abbreviations | | | | | | Maps | | | | | | Note on the text | | | | | | Prologue. Independence Day, 1854 | | 1 | | 1 | | A Robber and a Jailer: The Antebellum Republic | | 5 | | | | National development and national identity | | 5 | | | | Slavery and the antebellum South | | 14 | | | | Life in the 'free states' | | 23 | | | | The second party system | | 33 | | 2 | | Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War: The Politics of Slavery Expansion, 1848-52 | | 42 | | | | The political impact of the Mexican War | | 42 | | | | The presidential election of 1848 | | 50 | | | | The Compromise of 1850 | | 54 | | | | The Democrats ascendant, 1850-52 | | 64 | | 3 | | Political Crises of the 1850s | | 73 | | | | The Kansas-Nebraska Act | | 74 | | | | Politics in flux | | 79 | | | | The Republican threat | | 91 | | | | The eclipse of national Democracy and the election of Lincoln | | 100 | | 4 | | The Disunited States: Secession and Civil War | | 114 | | | | Secession and the outbreak of war, 1860-61 | | 115 | | | | The chimera of victory, 1861-62 | | 126 | | | | The triumph of Union arms, 1863-65 | | 141 | | 5 | | Our Deliverance is Nigh: The Quest for Southern Independence | | 158 | | | | Born in the CSA?: The unusual case of southern nationalism | | 158 | | | | Confederate mobilization and state formation | | 161 | | | | Nova ordo servorum | | 164 | | | More... | | |
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