The Impending Crisis - America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861

Zusatztext “The magnum opus of a great American historian.” Informationen zum Autor David M. Potter (1910-1971) was a professor of history at Yale and Stanford universities. He was posthumously awarded the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Impending Crisis , which his Stanford colleague Don Fehrenbacher completed and edited. Don E. Fehrenbacher (1920-1997) was awarded the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Dred Scott Case , and edited the Library of America's two-volume collection of Abraham Lincoln's speeches and writings. Klappentext David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern succession. Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis remains one of the most celebrated works of American historical writing. Zusammenfassung “David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” — Civil War History David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning  The Impending Crisis  is "the classic study of of antebellum America" ( American Prospect ). Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern succession. Now available in a new edition,  The Impending Crisis  remains "modern scholarship's most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War" ( Journal of Southern History ).

Product details

• Authors: David M Potter, David M. Potter, David Morris Potter
• Assisted by: Don E. Fehrenbacher (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2011
• EAN: 9780061319297
• ISBN: 978-0-06-131929-7
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Torchbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: United States / 19th Century, HISTORY: United States / 21st Century, HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, HISTORY: AMERICAN, HISTORY: United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), HISTORY: Study & Teaching, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)