Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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Title
When in the course of human events.
Title
When in the course of human events.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Public opinion-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Taxation-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Economics.
Politics and government
Public opinion, British.
Public opinion.
Sezessionskrieg
Taxation.
War-- Causes.
Wirtschaftspolitik
Zeithintergrund
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Causes.
United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Economic aspects.
United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Foreign public opinion, British.
United States, Politics and government, 1861-1865.