"David M. Potter's magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War." --Civil War History David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is "the classic study of of antebellum America" (American Prospect). Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern succession. Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis remains "modern scholarship's most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War" (Journal of Southern History).
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061319295
ISBN-13
9780061319297
eBay Product ID (ePID)
38604
Product Key Features
Book Title
Impending Crisis : America before the Civil War, 1848-1861
Author
David M. Potter
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Study & Teaching, United States / General