The republic in crisis, 1848-1861
By: John Ashworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781107024083; 9781107639232
Subjects: Politics and government; History; Causes; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Description: "The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861 meticulously analyzes the political climate in the years leading up to the Civil War and the causes of that conflict"--

"The Republic in Crisis, 1848,♯1︡861 analyzes the political climate in the years leading up to the Civil War, offering for students and general readers a clear, chronological account of the sectional conflict and the beginning of the Civil War. Emerging from the tumultuous political events of the 1840s and 1850s, the Civil War was caused by the maturing of the North and South's separate, distinctive forms of social organization and their resulting ideologies. John Ashworth emphasizes factors often overlooked in explanations of the war, including the resistance of slaves in the South and the growth of wage labor in the North. Ashworth acquaints readers with modern writings on the period, providing a new interpretation of the American Civil War's causes"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. The United States in 1948: a nation imperiled; 2. Crisis at mid-century, 1848-51; 3. Immigrants, alcoholics and their enemies: ethnocultural issues, 1851-4; 4. Preparing for disaster: the politics of slavery, 1851-4; 5. Political maelstrom, 1854-6; 6. North and south, republican and democrat; 7. Political polarisation, 1857-60; 8. Secession and the outbreak of war, 1860-1; 9. Conclusion: slavery, emancipation, and the Civil War.