The age of Lincoln and the art of American power, 1848-1876
Although Abraham Lincoln was among seven presidents who served during the tumultuous years between the end of the Mexican War and the end of the Reconstruction era, history has not been kind to the others: Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
[2013]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45606456*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Manifest Destiny, 1848-1860
- Eighteen forty-eight
- Young Lincoln
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Bleeding Kansas
- Dred Scott and Harper's Ferry
- The election
- Part II. Civil War, 1861-1865
- Limited war
- Emancipation
- The Hamiltonian triumph
- Turning points
- Total war
- With malice toward none
- Part III. Reconstruction, 1865-1876
- Revolution
- Night-riders and black codes
- Frontiers
- Eighteen seventy-six
- Legacy.
