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Civil War America : making a nation, 1848-1877 /
Focusing on the period 1848 to 1877 this important social history describes the experiences of ordinary people on the battlefield and beyond, and reveals how the American Civil War paved the way for U.S. great power status and why the U.S.A. rules the world today.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Longman,
2003.
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| Series: | Longman history of United States
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Independence Day, 1854
- A robber and a jailer: the antebellum republic
- Bitter fruit of an unjust war: the politics of slavery expansion, 1848-52
- Political crises of the 1850s
- The disunited states: secession and Civil War
- Our deliverance is nigh: the quest for Southern independence
- Last full measure of devotion: the Union in wartime
- War by any other name: the struggle over Reconstruction, 1865-76
- Land of gold: the Far West in the mid-Nineteenth Century
- Reform, reaction, and reunion at the dawn of the Gilded Age
- Conclusion: The Proving Time: the United States in the era of the Civil War.