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Looming Civil War : imagining the future in nineteenth-century America / Jason Phillips

Author
Phillips, Jason, 1973-
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Horizons -- 2.Speculations -- 3.Rumors -- 4.Prophecies -- 5.Anticipations -- 6.Expectations.
Summary
This work explains how American prophecies and forecasts of the Civil War formed, spread, and affected the war's outbreak, conduct, meaning, and memory. It identifies two temporalities in nineteenth-century America, progressive anticipations and fatalistic expectations, and shows how these approaches to the future shaped predictions of frontier conflicts, class warfare, slave insurrections, revolutions, and Armageddon.
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ISBN
9780190908416 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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