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" Why the Civil War came / "
edited by Gabor S. Boritt ; essays by David W. Blight ... [et al.]
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BL
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712293
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b534482
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| Title & Author
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Why the Civil War came /\ edited by Gabor S. Boritt ; essays by David W. Blight ... [et al.]
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1997, c1996
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xvii, 253 p. ;; 22 cm
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0195113764 (pbk.)
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: 9780195113761 (pbk.)
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| Notes
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"First published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 1996"--T.p. verso
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"Gettysburg Civil War Institute books"--P. [ii]
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-253)
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| Contents
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"And the war came"? Abraham Lincoln and the question of individual responsibility / Gabor S. Boritt -- "Little women" who helped make this great war / Glenna Matthews -- They knew what time it was : African-Americans / David W. Blight -- The crisis of American democracy : the political system and the coming of the Civil War / William E. Gienapp -- The divided south, democracy's limitations, and the causes of the peculiarly North American Civil War / William W. Freehling -- "Freedom and law must die ere they sever" : the North / Mark Wahlgren Summers -- Fort Sumter : at last the war / Charles Royster
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Causes
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| Dewey Classification
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973.7
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E459.W48 1997
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E459.W48 1997
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Blight, David W
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Boritt, G. S.,1940-
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