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Record Nr.

UNINA9910150341203321

Autore

Wells Jonathan Daniel <1969-, >

Titolo

A house divided : the Civil War and nineteenth-century America / / Jonathan Daniel Wells

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-35233-5

1-138-95685-6

1-315-66551-4

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (394 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

973.7

Soggetti

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865

United States History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

ch. 1. Slavery and the long-term roots of the Civil War -- chapter 2. The sectional crisis, 1830-1850 -- chapter 3. The 1850s and secession -- chapter 4. The war begins -- chapter 5. Organizing and mobilizing for war -- chapter 6. In the grip of war -- chapter 7. Turning points -- chapter 8. War on the home front -- chapter 9. The Union grinds toward victory -- chapter 10. Union victory and African American freedom -- chapter 11. Reconstruction begins -- chapter 12. Collapse of reconstruction -- chapter 13. America in the late nineteenth century.