America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink - Hardcover

Stampp, Kenneth M.

 
9780195039023: America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink

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From the Mormon rebellion to the Dred Scott decision to open warfare in Kansas to the Panic of 1857, it was a year when the troubled nation finally spun out of control. This account draws all the details together in an account of the forces tearing apart the Union.

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About the Author
Kenneth M. Stampp is Morrison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. A past president of the Organization of American Historians, a recipient of an American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of several seminal works in American history, includingThe Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South and The Imperiled Union.

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Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1993
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