Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859

(Part of the Littlefield History of the Civil War Era Series)

by Elizabeth R. Varon

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807871591

ISBN13:9780807871591

Release Date:September 2010

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:472 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

19th Century Civil War History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Revolution & Founding

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Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859

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