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Author | : David M. Potter |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 667 |
Release | : 1977-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0061319295 |
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 | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2008-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781439512470 |
Analyzes the problems of slavery, expansion, sectionalism, and party politics that influenced mid-nineteenth-century America
Author | : David Morris Potter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Sectionalism (United States) |
ISBN | : 9780060134037 |
Author | : Elizabeth R. Varon |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807887188 |
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 | : William W. Freehling |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195076813 |
Fresh analysis revises many previous theories on origins & significance of the nullification controversy.
Author | : Adam Goodheart |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2012-02-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400032199 |
A gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom. An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes—among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer’s wife, an idealistic band of German immigrants, a regiment of New York City firemen, a community of Virginia slaves, and a young college professor who would one day become president. Their stories take us from the corridors of the White House to the slums of Manhattan, from the waters of the Chesapeake to the deserts of Nevada, from Boston Common to Alcatraz Island, vividly evoking the Union at its moment of ultimate crisis and decision. Hailed as “exhilarating….Inspiring…Irresistible…” by The New York Times Book Review, Adam Goodheart’s bestseller 1861 is an important addition to the Civil War canon. Includes black-and-white photos and illustrations.
Author | : Richard White |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 964 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199735816 |
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.
Author | : Michael Fitzgibbon Holt |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780471408406 |
Author | : William C. Davis |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 1092 |
Release | : 1994-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439105855 |
For four crucial months in 1861, delegates from all over the South met in Montgomery, Alabama, to establish a new nation. Davis (Jefferson Davis: The Man and the Hour, LJ 11/15/91) tells their story in this new work, another example of Davis's fine storytelling skill and an indispensable guide to understanding the formation of the Confederate government. Among the issues Davis examines are revising the Constitution to meet Southern needs, banning the importation of slaves, and determining whether the convention could be considered a congress. Also revealed are the many participating personalities, their ambitions and egos, politicking and lobbying for the presidency of the new nation, and the nature of the city of Montgomery itself.
Author | : Russell McClintock |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2008-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807886327 |
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.