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Looming civil war : how nineteenth-century Americans imagined the future / Jason Phillips.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Jason, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public opinion--United States--History--19th century.
- Public opinion.
- United States--Civilization--19th century.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- United States--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This work explains how American prophecies and forecasts of the Civil War formed, spread, and affected the war's outbreak, conduct, meaning, and memory. It identifies two temporalities in nineteenth-century America, progressive anticipations and fatalistic expectations, and shows how these approaches to the future shaped predictions of frontier conflicts, class warfare, slave insurrections, revolutions, and Armageddon.
- Contents:
- Horizons
- Speculations
- Rumors
- Prophecies
- Anticipations
- Expectations.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-086818-X
- 0-19-090841-6
- 0-19-086817-1
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