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Title The causes of the Civil War / edited by Kenneth M. Stampp.

Imprint Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1974]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  973.711 C312 1974    ---  Lib Use Only
 Axe Special Collections Baron  973.711 C312 1974 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Edition Newly revised.
Description x, 182 pages ; 21 cm.
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Eyewitness accounts of American history series
Eyewitness accounts of American history series.
Note "A Spectrum book."
Contents I. The "slave power" and the "Black Republicans." The great slave power conspiracy / Russel B. Nye -- Where will it end / Atlantic Monthly -- The folly of the south / John B. Alley -- The Thirty Years' Conspiracy / Trenton Gazette -- The record of the slave power / Henry Wilson -- Secession and the Southern Revolutionary Nationalist Party / Lee Benson -- A warning to the North / John C. Calhoun -- The record of the Black Republicans / New Orleans Daily Crescent -- The injured South / Jefferson Davis -- The defensive South / Chauncey S. Boucher -- Egocentric sectionalism / Frank L. Owsley -- II. State rights and nationalism. South Carolina's Declaration of the causes of secession -- A constitutional view / Alexander H. Stephens -- The state rights fetish / Arthur M. Schlesinger -- What price union? / Richard H. Shryock -- The consequences of disunion / Philadelphia Public Ledger -- Our manifest destiny / Henry J. Raymond -- The power of patriotism / New York Herald -- Secession is political suicide / Cincinnati Commercial -- The age of nationalities / Boston Post -- A crisis in law and order / Phillip S. Paludan -- III. Economic sectionalism. Federal economic policy / Robert Toombs -- The imperial North / Vicksburg Daily Whig -- Economic independence through secession / John H. Reagan -- Northern grievances / Joshua R. Giddings -- The commercial consequences of secession / Boston Herald -- Tariff complications / Philadelphia Press -- The southern bid for commercial power / Boston Transcript -- The clash of rival economies / Charles A. and Mary R. Beard -- The civil war and class struggle / Algie M. Simons -- Revolutionary America / Louis M. Hacker --
IV. Blundering politicians and irresponsible agitators. A statesman of compromise / Stephen A. Douglas -- The testimony of an early "revisionist" / James Buchanan -- The fruits of abolitionist propaganda / New York Herald -- A needless war / Charles W. Ramsdell -- A blundering generation / James G. Randall -- An excess of democracy / David Ronald -- V. The right and wrong of slavery. The disrupting power of slavery / Abraham Lincoln -- The "higher law" / William H. Seward -- A house divided / Abraham Lincoln -- An irrepressible conflict / William H. Seaward -- No compromise with slavery! / William H. Herndon -- The question of the hour / James Russell Lowell -- God's penalty for slavery / Evansville, Ind., Journal -- The slaveholder's rebellion / Frederick Douglass -- The Almighty has His Own purposes / Abraham Lincoln -- Prospects of slavery expansion / Charleston Mercury -- No union with Abolitionists / New Orleans Bee -- Lincoln's election a menace to slavery / Charleston Mercury -- The Confederate cornerstone / Alexander H. Stephens -- The indispensable slaves / Jefferson Davis -- Slavery the "single cause" / James Ford Rhodes -- The essence of our tragedy / Bernard de Voto -- The inevitability of violence / Arthur Schlesinger -- The problem of inevitability / Pieter Geyl -- The travail of slavery / Charles G. Sellers, Jr. -- VI. Majority rule and minority rights. The concurrent majority / John C. Calhoun -- The tyranny of majority / Richmond Semi-weekly Examiner -- The monarchical South / Philadelphia Press -- Self-government on trial / Chicago Tribune -- The majority must rule / James Russell Lowell -- The Confederate challenge to free government / Chicago Journal -- In defense of the ballot box / Philadelphia Public Ledger -- A battle for democracy the world over / Columbus Ohio Gazette -- A people's contest / Abraham Lincoln -- The Civil War and the democratic process / Avery Craven --
VII. The conflict of cultures. Puritans and cavaliers / Edward A. Pollard -- The southern gentleman / Daniel R. Hundley -- The envious South / Chicago Tribune -- The barbarous South / Milwaukee Sentinel -- With malice toward southerners / Franklin Livingston -- The boorish North / Muscogee, Georgia, Herald -- We are enemies / Alfred Iverson -- Yankees vs. the "tropic Nordics" / Hamilton J. Eckenrode -- The plantation ideal / James Truslow Adams -- Where the difference lay / Allan Nevins -- The cult of chivalry / Rollin G. Osterweis -- A conflict of bourgeois and prebourgeois cultures / Eugene D. Genovese -- Northern progress and Southern decadence / Eric Foner -- The central theme of Southern history / Ulrich B. Phillips -- A "crisis of fear" / Steven A. Channing.
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
War -- Causes. (OCoLC)fst01170331
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Quelle (DE-588)4135952-5
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
Chronological Term 1861-1865
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
Added Author Stampp, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton), editor.
ISBN 0131212028
9780131212022
0131211943 (pbk.)
9780131211940 (pbk.)

 
    
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