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Disunion! - The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (Paperback, New edition)
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Disunion! - The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
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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. |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.
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