Coming of the Civil War

Name: Coming of the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780226118949

ISBN-10: 0226118940

ISBN-13: 9780226118949

Edition: 2nd 1966

Authors: Avery O. Craven

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"In recent years a highly industrious school of historians has begun asking whether the war should have been fought at all and whether it was perhaps not more the fault of the North than of the South. Seeking to revise earlier judgments they have become known as the revisionists, and one of the most gifted and studious of them all is Avery Craven, whose The Coming of the Civil War . . . is one of the landmarks of revisionist literature."--Bruce Catton, American Heritage ". . . those who would examine the democratic process during a period of progressive breakdown, in order to understand the dangers it embodies within itself, will find The Coming of the Civil War a classic analysis."--Louis…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1966
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1966
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 499
Size: 0.53" wide x 0.80" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English




The National Setting



A Way of Life



The Rural Depression, 1800-1832



By the Sweat of Their Faces



The Cotton Kingdom Rises



The Northern Attack on Slavery



The Southern Defense of Slavery



Slavery and Expansion



The Politicians and Slavery



Political Revolt



The First Crisis



The Union on Trial



The Northwest Gets Excited



Sectional Reactions to Events



Building the Republican Party



The Last Crisis



The Breakup of the Union


Notes


Index