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Originally Posted by JOZAWUN
In an international forum, it's insular to head a topic Civil War, or Revolution, or War of Independence, or President, or Senate, etc, and just assume the prefixes American, or U.S.
And, of course, I never said you weren't free to have or read or discuss anything you like, whether you are a nation of 300 or 300 million people.
Although there are many (U.S.A. and other) people who would strenuously object to describing the (U.S.) Civil War as the seminal event in U.S.A. history.
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This is really a dumb disagreement, especially in this thread. LoveMacs requested information about books on the
American Civil War and so that is the question people responded to. Yes, there was also a Civil War in England. I can name off of the top of my head two others; The Spanish Civil War and the Russian Civil War. That's even still keeping a European/North American point of view. But the question was about the
American Civil War.
The Civil War in America was a seminal event in American history. In addition to resolving the long simmering issue of slavery (on the correct side of course) it also transformed political and public views from thinking “These United States of America” to “The United States of America.”