Abstract: The American Civil War is rightly considered a watershed in American history. More than three decades ago, Morton Keller described this watershed in ways that continue to resonate: “On its far side is the young Republic: agrarian, decentralized, living still under the spell of the Revolution and the Founding Fathers, burdened by slavery but exhilarated by the lure of the great undeveloped West. And on its near side is modern America: a nation of cities, factories, immigrants; a society whose controlling realities are not simplicity and underdevelopment but complexity and maturity.”
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-03-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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