| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 605 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The road to disunion ; 2
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Road to disunion ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
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Secession.
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Secession. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
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Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865.
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Southern States. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1775-1865 |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861.
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1815-1861 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Freehling, William W., 1935- Road to disunion. Volume 2, Secessionists triumphant, 1854-1861. New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780195058154 0195058151 (OCoLC)122581000 |
| ISBN |
9781441606662 (electronic book) |
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1441606661 (electronic book) |
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9780195058154 (hardback) |
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0195058151 (hardback) |
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0195058151 |
| Standard No. |
9786611158712 |
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