The Coming of the American Civil War

by Perman,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780669271065
• ISBN10: 0669271063
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This classic anthology brings together a wealth of contemporary scholarship on the origins of the Civil War.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
Chronology	xxiii
I. Earlier Explanations
The Need for Justification
A War for State Rights	3	(4)
Alexander H. Stephens
A Slave Power Conspiracy	7	(10)
Henry Wilson
A Battle of Principles and Ideas	17	(6)
Frederick Douglass
The Problem of Inevitability
The Approach of the Irrepressible Conflict	23	(11)
Charles
Mary Beard
The Irrepressible Conflict	34	(5)
Frank L. Owsley
The Repressible Conflict	39	(8)
Avery O. Craven
The Blundering Generation	47	(10)
James G. Randall
II. Recent Explanations
Political and Institutional Origins of the Sectional Conflict
An Excess of Democracy: The American Civil War and the Social Process	57	(13)
David Herbert Donald
The American Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis	70	(20)
Arthur Bestor
Party Dynamics and the Coming of the Civil War	90	(23)
Michael F. Holt
The Irrepressible Conflict	113	(18)
Kenneth M. Stampp
Social and Economic Origins of the Sectional Conflict
The Southern Slaveholders Against the Modern World	131	(12)
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Eugene D. Genovese
The American Civil War: The Last Capitalist Revolution	143	(11)
Barrington Moore, Jr.
The Economics of Cotton, Slavery, and the Civil War	154	(15)
Gavin Wright
Cultural and Ideological Origins of the Sectional Conflict
Politics, Ideology, and the Origins of the Civil War	169	(19)
Eric Foner
The Distinctiveness of the Old South	188	(15)
James M. McPherson
Anglophobia, Southern Nationalism, and the Sectional Conflict	203	(21)
Kenneth S. Greenberg
White Supremacy and the American Sectional Conflict	224	(13)
George M. Fredrickson
The Secession Crisis
Secession in South Carolina	237	(8)
Steven A. Channing
Honor and Secession	245	(15)
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
The Unionist Offensive	260	(16)
Daniel W. Crofts
Why the Republicans Rejected Both Compromise and Secession	276	(17)
David M. Potter
The Republicans' Policy: A Reply to David M. Potter	293	(7)
Kenneth M. Stampp
The American Civil War as a Crisis in Law and Order	300	(15)
Phillip S. Paludan
Suggestions for Additional Reading	315