Looming civil war : how nineteenth-century Americans imagined the future /

This work explains how American prophecies and forecasts of the Civil War formed, spread, and affected the war's outbreak, conduct, meaning, and memory. It identifies two temporalities in nineteenth-century America, progressive anticipations and fatalistic expectations, and shows how these appr...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Phillips, Jason
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Zusammenfassung:
This work explains how American prophecies and forecasts of the Civil War formed, spread, and affected the war's outbreak, conduct, meaning, and memory. It identifies two temporalities in nineteenth-century America, progressive anticipations and fatalistic expectations, and shows how these approaches to the future shaped predictions of frontier conflicts, class warfare, slave insurrections, revolutions, and Armageddon.
Umfang:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Anmerkungen:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-086818-X
0-19-090841-6
0-19-086817-1
Schlagworte:
Public opinion > United States > History > 19th century.
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