The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861

AvJohn Ashworth

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861 analyses the political climate in the years leading up to the American Civil War, offering for students and general readers a clear, chronological account of the sectional conflict and the beginning of the Civil War. Emerging from the tumultuous political events of the 1840s and 1850s, the Civil War was caused by the maturing of the North and South's separate, distinctive forms of social organisation and their resulting ideologies. John Ashworth emphasises factors often overlooked in explanations of the war, including the resistance of slaves in the South and the growth of wage labour in the North. Ashworth acquaints readers with modern writings on the period, providing a new interpretation of the American Civil War's causes.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-08-27
Mått:152 x 228 x 14 mm
Vikt:320 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107639232

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John Ashworth is Professor of American History at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of numerous books, including Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic (Cambridge University Press, 1995, 2007), the second volume of which won the James A. Rawley award given by the Southern Historical Association.

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'Drawing on his own highly regarded work on the origins of the Civil War and his command of current historiography, John Ashworth has produced a compelling and lucid account of the road to disunion. He convincingly places slavery where it belongs - at the center of the era's social and political conflict - and makes the slaves themselves important actors in the story.' Eric Foner, Columbia University

Innehållsförteckning

1. The United States in 1848: a nation imperiled; 2. Crisis at mid-century, 1848–51; 3. Immigrants, alcoholics and their enemies: ethnocultural issues, 1851–4; 4. Preparing for disaster: the politics of slavery, 1851–4; 5. Political maelstrom, 1854–6; 6. North and south, republican and democrat; 7. Political polarisation, 1857–60; 8. Secession and the outbreak of war, 1860–1; 9. Conclusion: slavery, emancipation, and the Civil War.