American Mobbing, 1828-1861
Subtitle: Toward Civil War (United States)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 5, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780195172812
First sentence: Angry differences between the people of the North and South had never been so much in the fore as they were by August 1835, but on one thing observers on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line agreed: since early July the nation had demonstrated a penchant for riotous violence that raised doubts about its future stability.