TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boritt,G.S.
AU  - Blight,David W.
TI  - Why the Civil War came
SN  - 9780199761746
AV  - E459 .W48 1997eb
U1  - 973.7 22
PY  - 1997///, ©1996
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - War
KW  - Causes
KW  - fast
KW  - Amerikaanse burgeroorlog
KW  - gtt
KW  - Ontstaansgeschiedenis
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - History, 1861 - 1865
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "Gettysburg Civil War Institute books"--Page ii; "First published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 1996"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253); "And the war came"? Abraham Lincoln and the question of individual responsibility / Gabor S. Boritt -- "Little women" who helped make this great war / Glenna Matthews -- They knew what time it was : African-Americans / David W. Blight -- The crisis of American democracy : the political system and the coming of the Civil War / William E. Gienapp -- The divided south, democracy's limitations, and the causes of the peculiarly North American Civil War / William W. Freehling -- "Freedom and law must die ere they sever" : the North / Mark Wahlgren Summers -- Fort Sumter : at last the war / Charles Royster; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four horrific years and claim a staggering number of lives. Since that fateful day, the debate over the causes of the American Civil War has never ceased. What events were instrumental in bringing it about? How did individuals and institutions function? What did Northerners and Southerners believe in the decades of strife preceding the war? What steps did they take to avoid war? Indeed, was the great armed conflict avoidable at all? Why the Civil War Came brin
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