Ecstatic nation : confidence, crisis, and compromise, 1848-1877
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New York, NY : Harper, [2013].
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New York, NY : Harper, [2013].
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722 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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English

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Maps on lining papers.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 667-693) and index.
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Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery. With a canvas of extraordinary characters, such as P.T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, and L.C.Q. Lamar, Ecstatic Nation balances cultural and political history: it provides an account of the sectional conflict that preceded the Civil War, and it chronicles the complex aftermath of that war and Reconstruction, including the promise that women would share in a new definition of American citizenship. It takes us from photographic surveys of the Sierra Nevadas to the discovery of gold in the South Dakota hills, and it signals the painful, thrilling birth of modern America.--From publisher description.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Wineapple, B. (2013). Ecstatic nation: confidence, crisis, and compromise, 1848-1877 (First edition.). Harper.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Wineapple, Brenda. 2013. Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877. Harper.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Wineapple, Brenda. Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 Harper, 2013.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Wineapple, Brenda. Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 First edition., Harper, 2013.

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