| Description |
233 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Problems in American civilization |
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Problems in American civilization.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The causes by which the union is endangered / John C. Calhoun -- The irrepressible conflict / William H. Seward -- The irrepressible agitators / Stephen A. Douglas -- The house divided / Abraham Lincoln -- To the confederate congress, April 29, 1861 / Jefferson Davis -- Message to congress in special session, July 4, 1861 / Abraham Lincoln -- A peculiar and noble type of civilization / Edward A. Pollard -- Republican fanaticism as a cause of the civil war / James Buchanan -- The war for states rights / Alexander H. Stephens -- The slave power conspiracy / Henry Wilson -- The conflict arises from natural causes / John W. Draper -- Slavery as a single cause / James Ford Rhodes -- The approach of the second American revolution / Charles A. Beard -- The Southern defense of the agrarian ideal / Frank Lawrence Owsley -- The idea of Southern nationalism / Rollin G. Osterweis -- The natural limits of slavery expansion / Charles W. Ramsdell -- The blundering generation / James G. Randall -- The breakdown of the Democratic process / Avery Craven -- A note on historical sentimentalism / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- The American civil war and the problem of inevitability / Pieter Geyl -- The ordeal of the union / Allan Nevins -- The confusion of voices / Thomas J. Pressly -- The present crisis in the historical explanation of the causes of the American civil war / Edwin C. Rozwenc. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
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