Looming Civil War : how nineteenth-century Americans imagined the future /

How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches and newspapers decades beforehand. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a rac...

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Main Author: Phillips, Jason, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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