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Emotional and sectional conflict in the antebellum United States

Woods, Michael E., author

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\"The sectional conflict over slavery in the United States was not only a clash between labor systems and political ideologies but also a viscerally felt part of the lives of antebellum Americans. This book contributes to the growing field of emotions history by exploring how specific emotions shaped Americans' perceptions of, and responses to, the sectional conflict in order to explain why it culminated in disunion and war. Emotions from indignation to jealousy were inextricably embedded in antebellum understandings of morality, citizenship, and political affiliation. Their arousal in the context of political debates encouraged Northerners and Southerners alike to identify with antagonistic sectional communities and to view the conflicts between them as worth fighting over. Michael E. Woods synthesizes two schools of thought on Civil War causation: the fundamentalist, which foregrounds deep-rooted economic, cultural, and political conflict, and the revisionist, which stresses contingency, individual agency, and collective passion\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: American Civil War (1861-1865) / To 1899 / Slavery Political aspects United States History 19th century. / Slavery Social aspects United States History 19th century. / Sectionalism (United States) History 19th century. / Emotions Social aspects History 19th century. / Emotions Political aspects United States History 19th century. / Social conflict United States History 19th century. / HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. / Emotions Political aspects. / Emotions Social aspects. / Political science. / Sectionalism (United States) / Slavery Political aspects. / Slavery Social aspects. / Social conflict. / Social history. / War Causes. / United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes. / United States Social conditions To 1865. / United States Politics and government 1815-1861. / United States.
• ISBN: 9781107068988, 1107068983

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E415.7.W79 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE