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" When in the course of human events : "
Charles Adams.
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BL
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847833
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Adams, Charles,1930-
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When in the course of human events : : arguing the case for southern secession /\ Charles Adams.
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham, Md. :: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,, ©2000.
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xiv, 257 pages :: illustrations, 1 map ;; 24 cm
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0847697223
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: 9780847697229
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) and index.
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| Contents
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The dangerous road to secession -- A useless fort? -- Lincoln crosses the rubicon -- Whose war was it, anyway? -- The british press views the war -- British scholars speak -- How Bristish cartoonists saw the war -- A just war? -- Negrophobia -- The Ku Klux Klan -- The peacemakers -- The trial of the century that never was -- Lincoln's Logic -- The high ground -- Reflections: healing the breach.
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Adams uses documents from foreign (primarily British) and domestic observers to state that the South was exercising the rights laid out in the Declaration of Independence against a fiscally-quarrelsome and commercial North, rather than maintaining lofty moral principles of slavery.
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Public opinion-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Taxation-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Economics.
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Politics and government
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Public opinion, British.
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Public opinion.
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Sezessionskrieg
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Taxation.
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War-- Causes.
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Wirtschaftspolitik
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Zeithintergrund
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Causes.
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Economic aspects.
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Foreign public opinion, British.
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United States, Politics and government, 1861-1865.
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Great Britain.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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973.7/11
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E468.9.A33 2000
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