Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... issue of slavery was in any sense unimportant . Without slavery , there could have been no American Civil War . Moreover , if slavery had been the only source of social and political tension in nineteenth- century America , that source ...
... issue of slavery was in any sense unimportant . Without slavery , there could have been no American Civil War . Moreover , if slavery had been the only source of social and political tension in nineteenth- century America , that source ...
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... issue requiring a political solution , it could not have been a serious issue in the nineteenth century and would not have been made to seem a serious issue had not demagogues made It was this factor in their explanation of causation it ...
... issue requiring a political solution , it could not have been a serious issue in the nineteenth century and would not have been made to seem a serious issue had not demagogues made It was this factor in their explanation of causation it ...
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... issues of slavery and deter- minism became more confused than before . The more seriously a historian took the issue of slavery , the more he tended to believe that the Civil War was inevitable ; the less seriously he took the moral issue ...
... issues of slavery and deter- minism became more confused than before . The more seriously a historian took the issue of slavery , the more he tended to believe that the Civil War was inevitable ; the less seriously he took the moral issue ...
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