The great heart of the republic
Subtitle: St. Louis and the cultural Civil War
By: Adam Arenson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780674052888
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the three sides of the American Civil War; title: The destruction of the past; title: Thomas Hart Benton's failed compromise; title: Building the national future in the West; title: Antislavery derailed; title: The limits of Dred Scott's emancipation; title: Germans and the power of wartime union; title: Building union from neutrality; title: Abraham Lincoln's lost legacies; title: The capital failures of Reconstruction; title: Separating the city, county, and nation; title: Epilogue : the forgotten Civil War.