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The Old South's Modern Worlds
Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress
Inbunden, 2011
2234 kr
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The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The Old South's Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time. The essays gathered in this volume not …
The Old South's Modern Worlds
Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress
Av L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
606 kr
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Before the Civil War, America's slave states were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time but that history has been obscured by a deeply ingrained view of the Old South as an insular society with few outward connections. The Old South's Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth of an isolated …
Old South's Modern Worlds
Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress
Av Frank Towers, Brian Schoen m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
386 kr
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The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The Old South''s Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time. The essays gathered in this volume …
Old South's Modern Worlds
Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress
Av Frank Towers, Brian Schoen m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
386 kr
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The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The Old South''s Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time. The essays gathered in this volume …
Confederate Cities
The Urban South during the Civil War Era
Av Andrew L. Slap, Frank Towers
Häftad, 2015
288 kr
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When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted is that few urban historians have studied the …
Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
Av Frank Towers
Häftad, 2004
357 kr
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The role the rural South and its plantation system played in the secession of the Confederate states is well established. Towers contends that we should look as closely at it's urban centers. He sheds light on the dynamics of secession, concentrating on sociopolitical shifts in the South's three …
Remaking North American Sovereignty
State Transformation in the 1860s
Av Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers
Häftad, 2020
485 kr
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North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This crisis wove together the three …
Remaking North American Sovereignty
State Transformation in the 1860s
Av Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers
Inbunden, 2020
1763 kr
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North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This crisis wove together the three …
Continent in Crisis
The U.S. Civil War in North America
Av Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers
Inbunden, 2023
1509 kr
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Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America's mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world …
Continent in Crisis
The U.S. Civil War in North America
Av Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers
Häftad, 2023
435 kr
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Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America's mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world …
Confederate Cities
The Urban South during the Civil War Era
Av Andrew L. Slap, Frank Towers
Inbunden, 2015
876 kr
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When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted is that few urban historians have studied the …
Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
Av Frank Towers
Inbunden, 2004
529 kr
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The role the rural South and its plantation system played in the secession of the Confederate states is well established, but historian Frank Towers contends that we should look just as closely at the South's urban centers. An exemplary feat of research, The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil …
