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Newly revised. |
Description |
x, 182 pages ; 21 cm. |
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Series |
Eyewitness accounts of American history series |
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Eyewitness accounts of American history series.
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
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War -- Causes.
(OCoLC)fst01170331
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Quelle (DE-588)4135952-5
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658 |
Chronological Term |
1861-1865
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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Added Author |
Stampp, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton), editor.
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ISBN |
0131212028 |
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9780131212022 |
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0131211943 (pbk.) |
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9780131211940 (pbk.) |
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