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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458515903321

Autore

Cook Robert

Titolo

Civil War America : making a nation, 1848-1877 / / Robert Cook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-315-83884-2

0-582-38107-X

1-317-87809-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (403 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Longman History of United States

Disciplina

973.6

Soggetti

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865

United States History 1849-1877

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2003 by Pearson Education.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Gilded Age.