Why the Civil War Came

Name: Why the Civil War Came
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ISBN: 9780195113761

ISBN-10: 0195113764

ISBN-13: 9780195113761

Edition: 1997 (Reprint)

Authors: Gabor S. Boritt

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In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four horrific years and claim a staggering number of lives. Since that fateful day, the debate over the causes of the American Civil War has never ceased. What events were instrumental in bringing it about? How did individuals and institutions function? What did Northerners and Southerners believe in the decades of strife preceding the war? What steps did they take to avoid war? Indeed, was the great armed conflict avoidable at all? Why the Civil War Came brings a talented chorus of voices together to recapture the feel of a very different time and place,…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/29/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books


Acknowledgments


Introduction



And the War Came? Abraham Lincoln and the Question of Individual Responsibility



Little Women Who Helped Make This Great War



They Knew What Time It Was African-Americans and the Coming of the Civil War



The Crisis of American Democracy the Political System and the Coming of the Civil War



The Divided South, Democracy's Limitations, and the Causes of the Peculiarly North American Civil War



Freedom and Law Must Die Ere They Sever the North and the Coming of the Civil War



Fort Sumter at Last the War


Notes


For Further Reading


Contributors