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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “eric h walther”
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  • The Shattering of the Union

    America in the 1850s

    by Eric H. Walther ...
    Series series The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
    The 1850s offered the last remotely feasible chance for the United States to steer clear of Civil War. Yet fundamental differences between North and South about slavery and the meaning of freedom caused political conflicts to erupt again and again throughout the decade as the country lurched toward secession and war. With their grudging acceptance of the Compromise of 1850 and the election of ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War

    by Eric H. Walther ...
    Series series Civil War America
    IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew up believing that abolitionists were cruel, meddling, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Enigmatic South

    Toward Civil War and Its Legacies

    by Paul F. Paskoff, John M. Sacher, Eric H. Walther, Christopher Childers, Julia Nguyen, Sarah Hyde, Gaines M. Foster, George C. Rable ...
    The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American history.Christopher Childers, Sarah L. Hyde, and Julia Huston Nguyen consider the ways politics, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Apostles of Disunion

    Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

    by Charles B. Dew ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Ecstatic Nation

    Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877

    by Brenda Wineapple ...
    "From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly." —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous ... ... Read more

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  • The Wars of Reconstruction

    The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

    by Douglas R. Egerton ...
    A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Road to Disunion

    Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861

    by William W. Freehling ...
    Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks's beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate chambers, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and much more ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Counterrevolution of Slavery

    Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina

    by Manisha Sinha ...
    In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery.Sinha discusses ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Look Away!

    A History of the Confederate States of America

    by William C. Davis ...
    William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America not simply as a military saga (although it is that), but rather as a full portrait of a society and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Seward

    Lincoln's Indispensable Man

    by Walter Stahr ...
    From the acclaimed author of John Jay: Founding Father comes the illuminating and fascinating biography of the leader of Lincoln’s “team of rivals” and one of the most important Americans of the 19th century.William Henry Seward was one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century. Progressive governor of New York and outspoken US senator, he was the odds-on favorite to win the 1860 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Roots of Secession

    Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia

    by William A. Link ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War.An upper South state with nearly half a million slaves — more than any other state in the nation — and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Revolutionary Founders

    Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation

    Edited by Alfred F. Young, Ray Raphael, Gary Nash ...
    In twenty-two original essays, leading historians reveal the radical impulses at the founding of the American Republic. Here is a fresh new reading of the American Revolution that gives voice and recognition to a generation of radical thinkers and doers whose revolutionary ideals outstripped those of the Founding Fathers.While the Founding Fathers advocated a break from Britain and espoused ideals ... Read more

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