A house divided
Subtitle: sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865
By: Richard H. Sewell.
Series: The American moment
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780801835322
Subjects: Sectionalism (United States); United States -- History -- 1849-1877
Description: What caused the Civil War? A House Divided presents a fresh and balanced interpretation that challenges the view of slavery as a largely artificial or symbolic issue in the conflict between two incompatible societies. This book traces the growth of bitter sectional discord in the years after 1848, when the acquisition of new American territories rekindled old controversies over the expansion of slavery. A series of compromises forestalled the crisis of secession but increasingly divided the country along slavery's lines. - Publisher.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [197]-214.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The American people at mid-century; title: The legacy of the Mexican War; title: A hell of a storm; title: And the war came; title: Call to arms; title: The war at home; title: The blue and the gray; title: The destruction of slavery; title: Looking ahead : wartime reconstruction; title: Bibliographical essay