A01=William W. Freehling
Author_William W. Freehling
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Product details
- ISBN 9780195058147
- Weight: 984g
- Dimensions: 241 x 165mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 1991
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first volume of The Road to Disunion starts with Thomas Jefferson and his views on slavery and ends with the passage in 1854 of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which effectively extended slavery to the Western Plains. While the book focuses on the major political events of the period 1820 to 1854, it is also a broad study of Southern life and culture. It shows that there was no monolithic South, with one set of opinions and behaviour; rather each area had its own political views and internal conflicts.
William Freehling is Singletary Professor of the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. His first book, Prelude to Civil War, won both an Allan Nevins and a Bancroft Prize and is recognized as one of the most significant studies of the Civil War era published in the past three decades.
