Was the Civil War inevitable? What really caused it? Drawing on original sources--from Jefferson Davis to Frederick Douglass--and interpretive essays by today's most influential historians, this collection of essays gives a vivid sense of the political, economic, and cultural currents that swept the nation to war.
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Stampp leaves his mark,
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This review is from: The Causes of the Civil War: Revised Edition (Touchstone) (Paperback)
This book is concise, and gives the causes of the Civil War. Stampp is a very well respected and well informed. Stampp gives the reader a quick yet through breakdown of the causes of the Civil War. I used this book as a source in writing a paper on the Causes of the Civil War (undergrad) and it was very helpful. This is useful for those interested in American History.
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Facinating selection from diverse sources,
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some drivel, some repetitive and others stunning with fresh insight. Impossible to characterize as biased because of the variety of sources. What is called the "American Civil War" is a complex event which is difficult to untangle from all that preceded or followed it. The self-rightousness, aggrandizing commercial motives of the North were often masked as moral crusades and the theme emerged time and time again as I read. I would have to add this as a "must read" for anyone who is serious about scholarship of the period.
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This book is a seminal work for any student of the Civil War. It gives the opinions of those that actually lived through it, opinions from before, during, and after the war. These opinions are conflicting of course. For me it was not the type of book you can just sit down and read but rather a book to browse from time to time. An absolutely fascinating book.
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DURING THE YEARS of bitter sectional conflict that preceded the Civil War, Northern abolitionists, editors, and Republican politicians repeatedly charged that the Southin fact, the entire countrywas ruled by a ruthless "Slave Power." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
egocentric sectionalism, blundering generation, needless war, slave power, irrepressible conflict, southern secessionists, slavery expansion, sectional party, concurrent majority, sectional crisis, sectional conflict Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, South Carolina, New England, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, New Mexico, Declaration of Independence, Dred Scott, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, New Orleans, Southern Revolutionary Nationalist Party, Supreme Court, Black Republicans, Congressional Globe, Economic Sectionalism, Old South, American Historical Review, American Union, House of Representatives, Jefferson Davis, Oxford University Press, Revolutionary America, Southern Editorials, The Rebellion Record New!
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DURING THE YEARS of bitter sectional conflict that preceded the Civil War, Northern abolitionists, editors, and Republican politicians repeatedly charged that the Southin fact, the entire countrywas ruled by a ruthless "Slave Power." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
egocentric sectionalism, blundering generation, needless war, slave power, irrepressible conflict, southern secessionists, slavery expansion, sectional party, concurrent majority, sectional crisis, sectional conflict Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, South Carolina, New England, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, New Mexico, Declaration of Independence, Dred Scott, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, New Orleans, Southern Revolutionary Nationalist Party, Supreme Court, Black Republicans, Congressional Globe, Economic Sectionalism, Old South, American Historical Review, American Union, House of Representatives, Jefferson Davis, Oxford University Press, Revolutionary America, Southern Editorials, The Rebellion Record New!
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- Southern Editorials on Secession by Dwight Dumond on 4 pages
- The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings by Roy Basler on page 136, and page 139
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln by A. Lincoln on page 136, and page 139
- The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth M. Stampp in Front Matter
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- The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln--Teddy Roosevelt--Wilson How the Income Tax Transformed America by Steven R. Weisman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- We Are All Together Now: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and the Prophetic Tradition by William B. Rogers on page 46, page 84, and Back Matter
- The Routledge Companion to the American Civil War Era (Routledge Companions to History) by Hugh Tulloch in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln to Wilson--The Fierce Battles over Money and Power That Transformed the Nation by Steven R. Weisman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley by David Williams in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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