Ordeal of the Union, Volumes 1 and 2 combined
(Absolutely essential for students of the Civil War, the l...)
Absolutely essential for students of the Civil War, the late historian Nevins's National Book Award-winning masterwork, published over the years 1947-1971, is here presented complete and unabridged, both volumes combined for easy searching and research.
In volume 1, Nevins describes the tumultuous events of the from the end of the Mexican War to the election of 1852, and the state of American culture which made the eventual collision inevitable. He describes extensively the various reform movements, women's rights, social reform and, of course, abolitionism, which spread throughout the country. His treatment of the slavery issue is very fair, and must be read to understand the point of view of those Southerners who did not feel they could end the institution immediately, but deplored the institution itself.
In volume 2, Nevins continues his narrative, describing the election of President Buchanan and the turmoil that results, Bloody Kansas, Missouri, John Brown's Raid and, in the final chapter, the contrast between the cultures of the North and the South
Extensively footnoted, and annotated, there is no better source for understanding the entire country in the 1850's.
Chapter 1: Hour of Victory
Chapter 2: Lineaments of a New Republic
Chapter 3: Culture of the Masses
Chapter 4: The Pulse of reform
Chapter 5: For Those Just Ends
Chapter 6: Election of a War Hero
Chapter 7: The gathering Quarrel
Chapter 8: Clay to the Rescue
Chapter 9: The Great Debate
Chapter 10: The Union Stands Firm
Chapter 11: Southern Acquiescence, With Conditions
Chapter 12: Northern Acquiescence, With Reservations
Chapter 13: The Lot of the Bondsman
Chapter 14: The Cash Account of Slavery
Chapter 15: Slavery, Race Adjustment and the Future
Chapter 16: Brother Jonathen Asserts Himself
Table of Contents Volume 2
Chapter I…..Enter the Pleasant Mr. Pierce
Chapter II… Weak President: Rending Factions
Chapter III…Disaster: 1854
Chapter IV…Fountains of the Great Deep
Chapter V…..Two Blades of Grass
Chapter VI...Web of Transport
Chapter VII...The Rising Industrialism
Chapter VIII..Immigrants and Toilers
Chapter IX...Kansas and the Break-up of Parties
Chapter X…..Cuba, Ostend, and the Filibusters
Chapter XI…The Year of Violence: 1855
Chapter XII...Crisis in Kansas and Washington
Chapter XIII..Onset of '56
Chapter XIV..The Election of Buchanan
Chapter XV…Contrast of Cultures
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