The Impending Crisis
The Impending Crisis

Author: David M. Potter

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1977-03-15

Total Pages: 667

ISBN-13: 0061319295

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David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern succession. Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis remains one of the most celebrated works of American historical writing.

Disunion!
Disunion!

Author: Elizabeth R. Varon

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2008-11-15

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 0807887188

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In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, "disunion" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, a cataclysm that would plunge the nation into the kind of fear and misery that seemed to pervade the rest of the world. For many others, however, disunion was seen as the main instrument by which they could achieve their partisan and sectional goals. Varon blends political history with intellectual, cultural, and gender history to examine the ongoing debates over disunion that long preceded the secession crisis of 1860-61.

The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861

Author: David Morris Potter

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 746

ISBN-13:

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Examines the problems of slavery, expansion, and sectionalism between 1848 and 1861.

Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South
Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South

Author: Hinton Rowan Helper

Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning

Published: 1860

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.

This Republic of Suffering
This Republic of Suffering

Author: Drew Gilpin Faust

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2009-01-06

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0375703837

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Prelude to Civil War
Prelude to Civil War

Author: William W. Freehling

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780195076813

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Fresh analysis revises many previous theories on origins & significance of the nullification controversy.

The Impending Crisis
The Impending Crisis

Author: David Morris Potter

Publisher:

Published: 2008-07-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781439512470

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Analyzes the problems of slavery, expansion, sectionalism, and party politics that influenced mid-nineteenth-century America

Apostles of Disunion
Apostles of Disunion

Author: Charles B. Dew

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2017-02-03

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 0813939453

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Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our great national crisis. The fifteen years since the original publication of Apostles of Disunion have seen an intensification of debates surrounding the Confederate flag and Civil War monuments. In a powerful new afterword to this anniversary edition, Dew situates the book in relation to these recent controversies and factors in the role of vast financial interests tied to the internal slave trade in pushing Virginia and other upper South states toward secession and war.

The Origins of the American Civil War
The Origins of the American Civil War

Author: Brian Holden Reid

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1317871936

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The American Civil War (1861-65) was the bloodiest war of the nineteenth century and its impact continues to be felt today. It, and its origins have been studied more intensively than any other period in American history, yet it remains profoundly controversial. Brian Holden Reid's formidable volume is a major contribution to this ongoing historical debate. Based on a wealth of primary research, it examines every aspect of the origins of the conflict and addresses key questions such as was it an avoidable tragedy, or a necessary catharsis for a divided nation? How far was slavery the central issue? Why should the conflict have errupted into violence and why did it not escalate into world war?