The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle Over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic

by Gregory P Downs and Gregory P. Downs

Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely civil--meaning national--and not merely a war, but instead an international conflict of ideas as well as armies. Its implications transformed the U.S. Constitution and reshaped a world order, as political and economic systems grounded in slavery and empire clashed with the democratic process of republican...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469652730
• ISBN13: 9781469652733
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"