1831: Year of Eclipse - Softcover

Masur, Louis P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809041197 ISBN 13: 9780809041190

Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL, 2002

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Book by Masur Louis P

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"It was the year of Nat Turner's slave rebellion, of the launching of Garrison's Liberator, of Tocqueville's visit to the United States, of Cyrus McCormick's invention of the mechanical reaper, and of many other pivotal events. Annus mirabilis, 1831 became the hinge of fate for the future of America, both good and ill. Louis Masur has captured the flavor of this crucial year in this captivating book." --James M. McPherson

"Louis Masur has set himself up in a propitious perch astride the end of republican America and the ascendance of that messier thing called democracy. It is as if Alexis de Tocqueville returned and, with all the advantages of historical hindsight, rewrote his classic account of modern America's birth." --Joseph J. Ellis

"Not since Bernard De Voto's Year of Decision, 1846, published almost sixty years ago, have we had such a creative, well-intergrated work about a pivotal and defining moment in the nation's history. 1831 is filled with fresh and little-known information skillfully woven into a more familiar and highly meaningful narrative." --Michael Kammen

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A close-up view of a pivotal year in American history focuses on 1831, a year that began with a solar eclipse and that included Nat Turner's rebellion, increasingly violent congressional debates over slavery and tariffs, religious revivalism, technological innovation, and Jackson's harsh policies toward Native Americans, all setting the stage for the coming Civil War. Reprint.

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• Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0809041197
• ISBN 13: 9780809041190
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268