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1 online resource (403 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 Print version record Cover; Civil War America; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Maps; Note on the text; Prologue. Independence Day, 1854; 1. A Robber and a Jailer: The Antebellum Republic; National development and national identity; Slavery and the antebellum South; Life in the 'free states'; The second party system; 2. Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War: The Politics of Slavery Expansion, 1848-52; The political impact of the Mexican War; The presidential election of 1848; The Compromise of 1850; The Democrats ascendant, 1850-52 3. Political Crises of the 1850sThe Kansas-Nebraska Act; Politics in flux; The Republican threat; The eclipse of national Democracy and the election of Lincoln; 4. The Disunited States: Secession and Civil War; Secession and the outbreak of war,

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Author

Robert Cook, Robert Cook

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138171923

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities