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Author | : David M. Potter |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 667 |
Release | : 1977-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0061319295 |
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David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern succession. Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis remains one of the most celebrated works of American historical writing.
Author | : David Morris Potter |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Examines the problems of slavery, expansion, and sectionalism between 1848 and 1861.
Author | : David Morris Potter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Sectionalism (United States) |
ISBN | : 9780060134037 |
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Author | : Drew Gilpin Faust |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2009-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0375703837 |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author | : Elizabeth R. Varon |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807887189 |
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In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, "disunion" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, a cataclysm that would plunge the nation into the kind of fear and misery that seemed to pervade the rest of the world. For many others, however, disunion was seen as the main instrument by which they could achieve their partisan and sectional goals. Varon blends political history with intellectual, cultural, and gender history to examine the ongoing debates over disunion that long preceded the secession crisis of 1860-61.
Author | : Hinton Rowan Helper |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Slavery |
ISBN | : |
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This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.
Author | : Charles B. Dew |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2017-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813939453 |
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Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our great national crisis. The fifteen years since the original publication of Apostles of Disunion have seen an intensification of debates surrounding the Confederate flag and Civil War monuments. In a powerful new afterword to this anniversary edition, Dew situates the book in relation to these recent controversies and factors in the role of vast financial interests tied to the internal slave trade in pushing Virginia and other upper South states toward secession and war.
Author | : Michael Fitzgibbon Holt |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780471408406 |
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Author | : Russell McClintock |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2008-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807886327 |
Download Lincoln and the Decision for War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking and highly praised book, McClintock follows the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus. From small towns to big cities and from state capitals to Washington, D.C., McClintock highlights individuals both powerful and obscure to demonstrate the ways ordinary citizens, party activists, state officials, and national leaders interacted to influence the Northern response to what was essentially a political crisis. He argues that although Northerners' reactions to Southern secession were understood and expressed through partisan newspapers and officials, the decision fell into the hands of an ever-smaller group of people until finally it was Lincoln alone who would choose whether the future of the American republic was to be determined through peace or by sword.
Author | : Richard White |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 964 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199735816 |
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The newest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series, The Republic for Which It Stands argues that the Gilded Age, along with Reconstruction--its conflicts, rapid and disorienting change, hopes and fears--formed the template of American modernity.