Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859

Elizabeth R. Varon

4/5 ( ratings)

In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, disunion connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, a cataclysm that would plunge the nation into the kind of fear and misery that seemed to pervade the rest of the world. For many others, however, disunion was seen as the main instrument by which they could achieve their partisan and sectional goals. Varon blends political history with intellectual, cultural, and gender history to examine the ongoing debates over disunion that long preceded the secession crisis of 1860-61.

Language: English

Pages: 472

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Release: November 01, 2008

ISBN: 0807832324

ISBN 13: 9780807832325

Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859

Elizabeth R. Varon

4/5 ( ratings)

In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, disunion connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, a cataclysm that would plunge the nation into the kind of fear and misery that seemed to pervade the rest of the world. For many others, however, disunion was seen as the main instrument by which they could achieve their partisan and sectional goals. Varon blends political history with intellectual, cultural, and gender history to examine the ongoing debates over disunion that long preceded the secession crisis of 1860-61.

Language: English

Pages: 472

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Release: November 01, 2008

ISBN: 0807832324

ISBN 13: 9780807832325

More books from Elizabeth R. Varon

Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War

4.1/5 ( ratings)

We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Secession Winter: When the Union Fell Apart.

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy

3.6/5 ( ratings)

New Perspectives on the Union War (The North's Civil War)

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War (UnCivil Wars Ser.)

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?