The causes of the Civil War
Subtitle: institutional failure or human blunder?
By: Edited by Hans L. Trefousse.
Series: American problem studies
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Table of contents: title: Slavery, the sole cause, by J. F. Rhodes.; title: The approach of the second American revolution, by C. A. and M. R. Beard.; title: Commitment to laissez faire, by W. A. Williams.; title: Two separate societies, by A. C. Cole.; title: Southern agrarianism, by F. L. Owsley.; title: Human failure, by J. G. Randall. Party failure, by R. F. Nichols.; title: A moral problem, by A. Schlesinger, Jr.; title: Fort Sumter a deliberate plot, by C. W. Ramsdell.; title: Lincoln's peaceful intentions, by D. M. Potter.; title: Lincoln's risky gamble, by R. N. Current.; title: Suggestions for further reading (p. 126-128)