NEW The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861

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Binding
TP
EAN
9780061319297
ISBN
0061319295
Country/Region of Manufacture
America
Book Title
Impending Crisis : America before the Civil War, 1848-1861
Publisher
HarperCollins
Item Length
8 in
Publication Year
2011
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
David M. Potter
Features
Reprint
Genre
History
Topic
United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / 21st Century, United States / General
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Width
5.3 in
Number of Pages
672 Pages
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061319295
ISBN-13
9780061319297
eBay Product ID (ePID)
38604

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Book Title
Impending Crisis : America before the Civil War, 1848-1861
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / 21st Century, United States / General
Features
Reprint
Genre
History
Author
David M. Potter
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

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Dewey Decimal
973.7/11
Edition Description
Reprint
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"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)., "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 "The magnum opus of a great American historian." -Newsweek Now in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning history of antebellum America offers an indispensible analysis of the causes of the war between the states. The Journal of Southern History calls Potter's incisive account, "modern scholarship's most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War," and the New York Times Book Review hails it as "profound and original…. History in the grand tradition.", "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 ).
LC Classification Number
E459

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