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The Road to Disunion, Volume I
Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
Inbunden, 1991
962 kr
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The first volume of The Road to Disunion starts with Thomas Jefferson and his views on slavery and ends with the passage in 1854 of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which effectively extended slavery to the Western Plains. While the book focuses on the major political events of the period 1820 to 1854, it …
The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
Inbunden, 2007
1955 kr
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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 …
The Road to Disunion, Volume I
Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
Häftad, 1992
417 kr
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This first volume of William Freehling's long-awaited, monumental study of the south's road to disunion offers a sweeping social history of the antebellum South from 1776 to 1854. All the dramatic events leading to secession are here from the Missouri Compromise to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, as are …
Prelude to Civil War
The Nullification Controversy in Southern Carolina, 1816-1836
Häftad, 1992
334 kr
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When William Freehling's Prelude to Civil War first appeared in 1965 it was immediately hailed as a brilliant study of the origins of the American Civil War. Three decades later, its importance remains undiminished and is still considered one of the most significant studies in its field. This vivid …
Secession Debated
Georgia's Showdown in 1860
Av William W. Freehling, Craig M. Simpson
Häftad, 1995
435 kr
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The critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the future of slavery in a westward-expanding America. Two years later, an equally historic oratorical showdown between secessionists and Unionists in Georgia …
The Reintegration of American History
Slavery and the Civil War
Häftad, 1996
670 kr
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This collection of essays deals with the question of slavery, and how the South in particular responded to the problem. Subjects covered include: the Constitution and slavery, slave rebellion (Denmark Vesey Uprising), attempts to banish all blacks to Africa, attempts to expand slavery in the United …
The South Vs. The South
How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War
Häftad, 2002
303 kr
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Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North's greater industrial might. Now, in The South Vs. the South, one of America's leading authorities on the Civil War era offers an entirely new answer to this …
The Road to Disunion
Volume II Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
Häftad, 2008
357 kr
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The Road to Disunion, Vol. II completes William W. Freehlings monumental study of how the South came to begin the Civil War. Perhaps, as William Freehling surmises, the war was inevitable, because the issue of slavery sharply divided the South from the rest of the nation in the 1850s. Certainly the …
Secession Debated
Georgia''s Showdown in 1860
Av Craig M. Simpson, William W. Freehling
E-bok, 1992
283 kr
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The critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the future of slavery in a westward-expanding America. Two years later, an equally historic oratorical showdown between secessionists and Unionists in Georgia …
Road to Disunion
Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
E-bok, 2008
321 kr
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Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks''s beating of Charles …
Road to Disunion
Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854: Volume I
E-bok, 1991
397 kr
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Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling''s words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller''s dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, where …
South Vs. The South
How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War
E-bok, 2002
265 kr
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Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North''s greater industrial might. Now, in The South Vs. the South , one of America''s leading authorities on the Civil War era offers an entirely new answer to this question. …
Road to Disunion
Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
E-bok, 2008
321 kr
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Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks''s beating of Charles …
Road to Disunion
Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854: Volume I
E-bok, 1991
397 kr
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Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling''s words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller''s dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, where …
Secession Debated
Georgia's Showdown in 1860
Av Craig M. Simpson, William W. Freehling
E-bok, 1992
252 kr
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The critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the future of slavery in a westward-expanding America. Two years later, an equally historic oratorical showdown between secessionists and Unionists in Georgia …
Showdown in Virginia
The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union
Av William W. Freehling, Craig M. Simpson
Inbunden, 2010
807 kr
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In the spring of 1861, Virginians confronted destiny - their own and their nation's. Pivotal decisions awaited about secession, the consequences of which would unfold for a hundred years and more. But few Virginians wanted to decide at all. Instead, they talked, almost interminably. The remarkable …
Showdown in Virginia
The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union
Av Craig M. Simpson, William W. Freehling
E-bok, 2010
417 kr
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In the spring of 1861, Virginians confronted destiny—their own and their nation’s. Pivotal decisions awaited about secession, the consequences of which would unfold for a hundred years and more. But few Virginians wanted to decide at all. Instead, they talked, almost interminably. The remarkable …
Becoming Lincoln
Inbunden, 2018
403 kr
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Previous biographies of Abraham Lincoln—universally acknowledged as one of America’s greatest presidents—have typically focused on his experiences in the White House. In Becoming Lincoln, renowned historian William Freehling instead emphasizes the prewar years, revealing how Lincoln came to be the …
Becoming Lincoln
E-bok, 2018
514 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Lincoln Prize Previous biographies of Abraham Lincoln—universally acknowledged as one of America’s greatest presidents—have typically focused on his experiences in the White House. In Becoming Lincoln , renowned historian William Freehling instead emphasizes the prewar …
Showdown in Virginia
The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union
Av William W. Freehling, Craig M. Simpson
Häftad, 2010
325 kr
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In the spring of 1861, Virginians confronted destiny - their own and their nation's. Pivotal decisions awaited about secession, the consequences of which would unfold for a hundred years and more. But few Virginians wanted to decide at all. Instead, they talked, almost interminably. The remarkable …
