Looming Civil War : imagining the future in nineteenth-century America / Jason Phillips.

9780190908416 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

E169.1 .P5435 2018

973.9

This work explains how American prophecies and forecasts of the Civil War formed, spread, and affected the war's outbreak, conduct, meaning, and memory. It identifies two temporalities in nineteenth-century America, progressive anticipations and fatalistic expectations, and shows how these approaches to the future shaped predictions of frontier conflicts, class warfare, slave insurrections, revolutions, and Armageddon.

This work explains how American prophecies and forecasts of the Civil War formed, spread, and affected the war's outbreak, conduct, meaning, and memory. It identifies two temporalities in nineteenth-century America, progressive anticipations and fatalistic expectations, and shows how these approaches to the future shaped predictions of frontier conflicts, class warfare, slave insurrections, revolutions, and Armageddon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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