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The Second American Revolution - The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic (Hardcover)
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The Second American Revolution - The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic (Hardcover)
Series: The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
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Much of the confusion about a central event in United States
history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil
War was not merely civil--meaning national--and not merely a war,
but instead an international conflict of ideas as well as armies.
Its implications transformed the U.S. Constitution and reshaped a
world order, as political and economic systems grounded in slavery
and empire clashed with the democratic process of republican forms
of government. And it spilled over national boundaries, tying the
United States together with Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Britain, and
France in a struggle over the future of slavery and of republics.
Here Gregory P. Downs argues that we can see the Civil War anew by
understanding it as a revolution. More than a fight to preserve the
Union and end slavery, the conflict refashioned a nation, in part
by remaking its Constitution. More than a struggle of brother
against brother, it entailed remaking an Atlantic world that
centered in surprising ways on Cuba and Spain. Downs introduces a
range of actors not often considered as central to the conflict but
clearly engaged in broader questions and acts they regarded as
revolutionary. This expansive canvas allows Downs to describe a
broad and world-shaking war with implications far greater than
often recognized.
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