The great heart of the republic : St. Louis and the cultural Civil War /

The Civil War Revealed what united as well as what divided Americans in the nineteenth century--not only in its deadly military conflict, but also in the broader battle of ideas, dueling moral systems, and competing national visions that preceded and followed. This cultural civil war was the clash a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arenson, Adam, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Temas:
1800-1899
Slavery > United States > Extension to the territories.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Extension aux États libres.
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Politics and government
Slavery > Extension to the territories.
Social aspects.
Territorial expansion.
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Culturele aspecten.
Sociale aspecten.
Kulturwandel.
Sezessionskrieg.
Reconstruction.
Saint Louis (Mo.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Saint Louis (Mo.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
West (U.S.) > Politics and government > 19th century.
United States > Territorial expansion > History > 19th century.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Missouri > Saint Louis.
United States.
West United States.
Saint Louis (Mo.)
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the three sides of the American Civil War
  • The destruction of the past
  • Thomas Hart Benton's failed compromise
  • Building the national future in the West
  • Antislavery derailed
  • The limits of Dred Scott's emancipation
  • Germans and the power of wartime union
  • Building union from neutrality
  • Abraham Lincoln's lost legacies
  • The capital failures of Reconstruction
  • Separating the city, county, and nation
  • Epilogue : the forgotten Civil War.

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