Título:
Ecstatic nation : confidence, crisis, and compromise, 1848-1877 / Brenda Wineapple.
ISBN:
9780061234576
Autor personal:
Edición:
First edition.
Información de publicación:
New York, NY : Harper, [2013]
Descripción física:
722 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Nota general:
Maps on lining papers.
Contenido:
The end of Earth -- 1848-1861. Higher laws ; Who ain't a slave? ; One aggresses ; Democracy ; Sovereignty ; Revolutions never go backward ; The impending crisis ; A clank of metal -- 1861-1865. On to Richmond ; Battle cry of freedom ; This thing now never seems to stop ; The last full measure of devotion ; Fairly won ; Armed liberty ; And this is Richmond ; The simple, fierce deed -- 1865-1876. But half accomplished ; Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum ; Power ; Deep water ; Running from the past ; Westward the course of empire ; With the Ten Commandments in one hand ; Conciliation, or, The living.
Síntesis:
Balances cultural and political history by providing an account of the sectional conflict that preceded the Civil War, and chronicling the complex aftermath of that war and Reconstruction, including the promise that women would share in a new definition of American citizenship.--From publisher description.
DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn824609002
Disponibilidad:
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