In this Book
- Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
summary
In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, "disunion" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, a cataclysm that would plunge the nation into the kind of fear and misery that seemed to pervade the rest of the world. For many others, however, disunion was seen as the main instrument by which they could achieve their partisan and sectional goals. Varon blends political history with intellectual, cultural, and gender history to examine the ongoing debates over disunion that long preceded the secession crisis of 1860-61.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. iii-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- PART I. 1789 – 1836
- PART II. 1837 – 1850
- 6. That Is Revolution!: The Crisis of 1850
- pp. 199-231
- PART III. 1851 – 1859
- Bibliography
- pp. 401-429
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469606200
Related ISBN(s)
9780807832325, 9780807866078, 9780807871591, 9780807887189
MARC Record
OCLC
405097257
Pages
472
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No