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      • Volume 2: The Coming of the Civil War, 1850–1861
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      08 January 2007
      ISBN:
      9780511815423
      9780521885928
      9780521713696
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815423
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.04kg, 694 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.03kg, 694 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
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    The second and concluding volume of Professor Ashworth's study of American antebellum politics, this book offers an exciting new interpretation of the origins of the Civil War. The volume deals with the politics of the 1850s and with the plunge into civil war. Professor Ashworth offers a new way of understanding the conflict between North and South and shows how northern free labor increasingly came into conflict with southern slavery as a result of both changes in the northern economy and the structural weaknesses of slavery.

    Reviews

    "John Ashworth’s explanation of the coming of the Civil War is intellectually attractive, structurally elaborate, and inadequately elaborated for so ambitious a book." -Lawrence T. McDonnell, The Journal of American History

    "...a comprehensive, almost encyclopedic, examination of political ideology from Andrew Jackson's presidency to the firing on Fort Sumter." -James L. Huston, The Journal of Southern History

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