num_pages: 256
description: From Simon &amp; Schuster, The Cause of the Civil War is historian Kenneth Stampp's exploration of America's great civil conflict.Was the Civil War inevitable? What really caused it? Drawing on original sources--from Jefferson Davis to Frederick Douglass--and interpretive essays by today's most influential historians, this collection of essays gives a vivid sense of the political, economic, and cultural currents that swept the nation to war.
language: English
title: The Causes of the Civil War
titlecomplete: The Causes of the Civil War
genres: History, Politics, American History, Historical, War, American, American Civil War, Nonfiction, Civil War, Grad School
ratings_count: 154
publisher: Touchstone