Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future

by Jason Phillips

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How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a race war, a revolution, a war for liberation, and Armageddon. Reading their premonitions reveals how several factors, including...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0190868163

ISBN13:9780190868161

Release Date:October 2018

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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