Robert Cook

Civil War America (eBook, ePUB)

Making a Nation, 1848-1877

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317878087
• Artikelnr.: 41096518

Autorenporträt

Robert Cook is a senior lecturer in History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of a number of books on American history including Sweet Land of Liberty? The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century (Longman)

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Maps. Note on the Text. Prologue.
Independence Day, 1854. 1. A Robber and a Jailer: The Antebellum Republic
2. Bitter Fruit of an Unjust War: The Politics of Slavery Expansion,
1848-52 3. Political Crises of the 1850s 4. The Disunited States: Secession
and Civil War 5. Our Deliverance is Nigh: The Quest for Southern
Independence 6. Last Full Measure of Devotion: The Union in Wartime 7. War
by Any Other Name: The Struggle over Reconstruction, 1865-76 8. Land of
Gold: The Far West in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 9. Reform, Reaction and
Reunion at the Dawn of the Guilded Age. Conclusion. The Proving Time: The
United States in the Era of the Civil War. Select Bibliography. Index.