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Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States (Hardcover)
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Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States (Hardcover)
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The sectional conflict over slavery in the United States was not
only a clash between labour systems and political ideologies but
also a viscerally felt part of the lives of antebellum Americans.
This book contributes to the growing field of emotions history by
exploring how specific emotions shaped Americans' perceptions of,
and responses to, the sectional conflict in order to explain why it
culminated in disunion and war. Emotions from indignation to
jealousy were inextricably embedded in antebellum understandings of
morality, citizenship, and political affiliation. Their arousal in
the context of political debates encouraged Northerners and
Southerners alike to identify with antagonistic sectional
communities and to view the conflicts between them as worth
fighting over. Michael E. Woods synthesizes two schools of thought
on Civil War causation: the fundamentalist, which foregrounds
deep-rooted economic, cultural, and political conflict, and the
revisionist, which stresses contingency, individual agency, and
collective passion.
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