Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future

by Jason Phillips

Book Overview

How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a race war, a revolution, a war for liberation, and Armageddon. Reading their premonitions reveals how several factors, including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190868163
• ISBN13: 9780190868161
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"