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100 1 _aGoldfield, David R.,
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245 1 0 _aAmerica aflame :
_bhow the Civil War created a nation /
_cDavid Goldfield.
250 _a1st U.S. ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bBloomsbury Press,
_c2011.
300 _a632 p., [8] p. of plates :
_bill. (some col.) ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [591]-615) and index.
505 0 _aA 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.
520 _aIn 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.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xInfluence.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xCauses.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xCampaigns.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xReligious aspects.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aNational characteristics, American.
650 4 _aEstados Unidos
_xHistoria.
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