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The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic
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Overview
Here Gregory P. Downs argues that we can see the Civil War anew by understanding it as a revolution. More than a fight to preserve the Union and end slavery, the conflict refashioned a nation, in part by remaking its Constitution. More than a struggle of brother against brother, it entailed remaking an Atlantic world that centered in surprising ways on Cuba and Spain. Downs introduces a range of actors not often considered as central to the conflict but clearly engaged in broader questions and acts they regarded as revolutionary. This expansive canvas allows Downs to describe a broad and world-shaking war with implications far greater than often recognized.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781469652740 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 10/10/2019 |
Series: | The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 232 |
Sales rank: | 1,070,763 |
File size: | 4 MB |
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What People are Saying About This
A bold and refreshing interpretation of the Civil War that challenges scholars to bring the singular story out of its narrow, hyperspecialized confines of national history, reframing it into a watershed moment shaped by hemispheric and global forces that remade the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.Matt D. Childs, author of The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery
With beautiful, elegant prose, Downs takes the old topic of the revolutionary quality of the Civil War and moves it forward in unexpected and exciting ways by putting it in conversation with the revolutionary nature of the Atlantic in the same period. This is a truly pioneering and innovative book.Michael Vorenberg, author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment
A marvel of interpretation and innovation, this book should open a whole new wing of Civil War history. After reading it, I am more convinced than ever of the necessity of connecting the U.S. Civil War to more of the globe and more of the nineteenth century. Downs's arguments challenge existing ways of framing and understanding the conflict. I look forward to the conversation this book is sure to inspire.Aaron Sheehan-Dean, author of The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War