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Considers the key questions America faced on the eve of the Civil War: What factors fuelled booming national expansion and economic growth, and what roles did they play in the national conversation? Would the slave-based economy continue to thrive? What would be the long-term effects of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry? And what was the outlook for the election of 1860?
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"This remarkable publication provides a captivating and brilliantly executed series of conversations among seventeen most impressive historians. These participants in a daylong conference focusing on the extraordinary years leading to the Civil War provide an incredible range of historical information that is both educational and exciting. Here is an opportunity to draw on a lively exchange between a substantial number of knowledgeable and entertaining scholars."
--James Oliver Horton, author of Landmarks of African American HistoryAbout the Author
Edward L. Ayers is President of the University of Richmond and the author of the Bancroft Prize-winning In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. Carolyn R. Martin is Executive Assistant to the President at the University of Richmond and served as chair of the planning committee for hosting the "America on the Eve of the Civil War" Signature Conference.
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- PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0813930634
- ISBN 13 9780813930633
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
- EditorAyers Edward L., Martin Carolyn R.
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