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It is one of the great questions of American history--why did the Southern states bolt from the Union and help precipitate the Civil War? Now, acclaimed historian William W. Freehling offers a new answer, in the final volume of his monumental history The Road to Disunion. Here is history in the gran...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Freehling, William W., 1935-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Colección:Road to disunion ; 2.
Temas:
1775-1865
Secession.
Sécession.
HISTORY.
Politics and government
Secession
War > Causes
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
Southern States > Politics and government > 1775-1865.
United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861.
États-Unis (Sud) > Politique et gouvernement > 1775-1865.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1815-1861.
Southern States
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Better economic times generate worse democratic dilemmas
  • Democracy and despotism, 1776-1854: road, volume I revisited
  • Economic bonanza, 1850-1860
  • Part II: The climactic ideological frustrations
  • James Henry Hammond and the unsolvable proslavery puzzle
  • The three imperfect solutions
  • The puzzling future and the infuriating scapegoats
  • Part III: The climactic political frustrations
  • Bleeding Kansas and bloody Sumner
  • The scattering of the ex-Whigs
  • James Buchanan's precarious election
  • The president-elect as the Dred Scotts' judge
  • The climactic Kansas crisis
  • Caribbean delusions
  • Reopening the African slave trade
  • Reenslaving free Blacks
  • Part IV: John Brown and three other men coincidentally named John
  • John Brown and violent invasion
  • John G. Fee and religious invasion
  • John Underwood and economic invasion
  • John Clark and political invasion
  • Part V: The election of 1860
  • Yancey's lethal abstraction
  • The democracy's Charleston Convention
  • The democracy's Baltimore Convention
  • Suspicious Southerners and Lincoln's election
  • Part VI: South Carolina dares
  • The state's rights justification
  • The motivation
  • The tactics and tacticians
  • The triumph, Coda: did the coincidence change history?
  • Part VII: Lower South landslide, Upper South stalemate
  • Alexander Stephen's fleeting moment, Coda: did Stephen's and Hammond's personalities change history?
  • Southwestern Separatists' tactics and messages
  • Compromise rejected
  • Military explosions
  • Snowball rolling
  • Upper South stalemate
  • Stalemate-and the South-shattered, Coda: how did slavery cause the Civil War?

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