America Aflame How the Civil War Created a Nation

Name: America Aflame How the Civil War Created a Nation
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ISBN: 9781608193905

ISBN-10: 160819390X

ISBN-13: 9781608193905

Edition: 2013

Authors: David Goldfield

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In this spellbinding history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson’sBattle Cry of Freedom. Where other scholars have seen the conflict as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield paints it as America’s greatest failure: a breakdown of society caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the world of politics.The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not: It made the United States one nation and eliminated the divisive force of slavery. The victorious North moved ahead, a land of innovation and industry. Religion was supplanted by a gospel of economic and scientific progress, and…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.32" long x 1.64" tall
Weight: 1.562



Introduction: A Nation Reborn



Crusades



Empire



Revolutions



Railroaded



Blood on the Plains



Revival



The Boatman



The Tug Comes



Just Causes



Shiloh Awakening



Born in a Day



Blood and Transcendence



A New Nation



War Is Cruelty



One Nation, Indivisible



The Age of Reason



Aspirations



A Golden Moment



The Golden Spike



Political Science



Let It Be



Centennial


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index