The Imperiled Union Essays on the Background of the Civil War

The Imperiled Union is a major contribution to the literature of the American sectional conflict by Kenneth M. Stampp, author of the classic account of slavery in the South, The Peculiar Institution. The essays collected here -- two written especially for this volume, most of the others substantially revised for this book -- represent the summation of his thinking about the issues and events that produced America's most tragic moment, the Civil War. Book jacket.

Kenneth M. Stampp is Morrison Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley