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THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND ITS ANTECEDENTS: A SURVEY OF RECENT LITERATURE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

MARGARET M. STOREY
Affiliation:
EMORY UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Lincoln and his party in the secession crisis. By David M. Potter. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press [reissue], 1996. Pp. vii+408. £15.95.

Slavery, capitalism, and politics in the antebellum republic. Volume I: Commerce and compromise, 1820–1850. By John Ashworth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. vii+520. £40.00.

In the master's eye. Representations of women, blacks, and poor whites in antebellum southern literature. By Susan J. Tracy. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. Pp. vii+307. £40.00.

April '65. Confederate covert action in the American Civil War. By William A. Tidwell. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995. Pp. vii+264. $30.00.

The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic rim. By R. E. May, ed. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1995. Pp. ix+169. £11.95.

Type
REVIEW ARTICLES
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I wish to thank Michael Piersom for our helpful conversations about abolitionism, as well as James Roark, Julie Livingston, and Jonathan Heller for their thoughtful comments.