02424cam a2200397 a 4500 104603 20230404125755.0 100624s2011 nyua b 001 0 eng 16299909 acquire 2 shelf copies policy default lcc bk 2010025241 9781596917026 (hbk.) 1596917024 (hbk.) (OCoLC)ocn639161278 DLC DLC IG# BTCTA YDXCP UPZ VP@ IEB GPI CDX NSB EEK BWX CVN DLC n-us--- 002 E 178.1 G618a 2011 973 Goldfield, David R., 1944- America aflame : how the Civil War created a nation / David Goldfield. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2011. 632 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [591]-615) and index. A nation reborn -- Crusades -- Empire -- Revolutions -- Railroaded -- Blood on the Plains -- Revival -- The boatman -- The tug comes -- Just causes -- Shiloh awakening -- Born in a day -- Blood and transcendence -- A new nation -- War is cruelty -- One nation, indivisible -- The age of reason -- Aspirations -- A golden moment -- The golden spike -- Political science -- Let it be -- Centennial. In this history, the author offers a new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom." Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, this author sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second Great Awakening surged through America, political questions became matters of good and evil to be fought to the death. The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Influence. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Religious aspects. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects. National characteristics, American. Estados Unidos Historia. nc 4396 4396 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-04 1 0 002 E 178.1 G618a 2011 00000098434 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk