The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil WarOxford University Press, 1981 M09 17 - 320 pages A collection of essays by a master historian. Amongst the subjects that Stampp tackles are the inevitability of the Civil War and the truth about why the confederacy actually died. The other essays are a mix of historiography and analysis of issues including Lincoln's role in reinforcing Fort Sumter, the impact of psychology in trading slaves, and the role of racism in the Republican Party. |
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Page viii
... argument first developed to uphold the Union's per- petuity ? The question proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated , because , as far as I have been able to discover , a substantial case for a perpetual Union was not devised ...
... argument first developed to uphold the Union's per- petuity ? The question proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated , because , as far as I have been able to discover , a substantial case for a perpetual Union was not devised ...
Page x
... arguments in this his- toriographical dispute and to reach some tentative conclusions from an analysis of the Lincoln - Douglas debates . Chapter V , " The Republican National Convention of i860 , " was originally a contribution to J ...
... arguments in this his- toriographical dispute and to reach some tentative conclusions from an analysis of the Lincoln - Douglas debates . Chapter V , " The Republican National Convention of i860 , " was originally a contribution to J ...
Page xi
... argument is sound . However , David M. Potter raised some questions about it in the Preface to the paperback edition of his book , Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis ( New Haven , 1962 ) . I re- sponded to his criticism ...
... argument is sound . However , David M. Potter raised some questions about it in the Preface to the paperback edition of his book , Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis ( New Haven , 1962 ) . I re- sponded to his criticism ...
Page xii
... argument , I remain stubbornly convinced of its plausi- bility as a partial explanation of Confederate defeat . My argu- ment is based , first , on a conviction that the cultural differ- ences between North and South were not in ...
... argument , I remain stubbornly convinced of its plausi- bility as a partial explanation of Confederate defeat . My argu- ment is based , first , on a conviction that the cultural differ- ences between North and South were not in ...
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... argument that supported it has re- ceived surprisingly little critical analysis and is not , I think , very well understood . Since the Union's perpetuity was rather firmly established at Appomattox and has rarely been disputed since ...
... argument that supported it has re- ceived surprisingly little critical analysis and is not , I think , very well understood . Since the Union's perpetuity was rather firmly established at Appomattox and has rarely been disputed since ...
Contents
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The Search for | 39 |
A Humanistic Perspective | 72 |
Race Slavery and the Republican Party | 105 |
The Republican National Convention of 1860 | 136 |
Lincoln and the Secession Crisis | 163 |
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