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A house divided : sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865 / Richard H. Sewell.
LIBRA E415.7 .S525 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sewell, Richard H.
- Series:
- American moment
- American moment.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sectionalism (United States).
- United States--History--1849-1877.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 223 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1988]
- Summary:
- What caused the Civil War? A House Divided presents a fresh and balanced interpretation that challenges the view of slavery as a largely artificial or symbolic issue in the conflict between two incompatible societies. This book traces the growth of bitter sectional discord in the years after 1848, when the acquisition of new American territories rekindled old controversies over the expansion of slavery. A series of compromises forestalled the crisis of secession but increasingly divided the country along slavery's lines.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [197]-214.
- ISBN:
- 0801835313
- 0801835321
- OCLC:
- 15858237
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