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The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War
Adam Arenson
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Paperback. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: HBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
The Civil War revealed what united as well as what divided Americans in the nineteenth century—not only in its deadly military conflict, but also in the broader battle of ideas, dueling moral systems, and competing national visions that preceded and followed. This cultural civil war was the clash among North, South, and West, as their leaders sought to shape Manifest Destiny and slavery politics.
No site embodied this struggle more completely than St. Louis, the largest city along the border of slavery and freedom. In this sweeping history, Adam Arenson reveals a city at the heart of the cultural ... Read more
The Civil War revealed what united as well as what divided Americans in the nineteenth century—not only in its deadly military conflict, but also in the broader battle of ideas, dueling moral systems, and competing national visions that preceded and followed. This cultural civil war was the clash among North, South, and West, as their leaders sought to shape Manifest Destiny and slavery politics.
No site embodied this struggle more completely than St. Louis, the largest city along the border of slavery and freedom. In this sweeping history, Adam Arenson reveals a city at the heart of the cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826220646
SKU
V9780826220646
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About Adam Arenson
Adam Arenson is associate professor of History and Director of the Urban Studies Program at Manhattan College in the Bronx, USA. He writes about the history and memory of North America and the global nineteenth century, concentrating on the cultural and political history of slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction, as well as the development of cities. Arenson has also written ... Read more
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