"Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836" by William W. Freehling, published by Harper & Row, New York. Stated First Harper Torchbooks Edition, 1968. [1st paperback edition, 1st hard cover was issued by Harper in 1966].

Well researched study regarding the Nullification and States' Rights Controversy between South Carolina and the Federal government in the early 19th century. Issues which eventually paved the way to the American Civil War.

Soft cover [a little wear]; 5.1/4" x 8"; 395 pages including Appendix, Bibliographical essay and Index; very good condition.

William W. Freehling (born 1935) is an American historian, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky. Freehling has written several well-respected works on the American South during the antebellum era and on the American Civil War, most notably "Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina," which won the 1967 Bancroft Prize, and a two-volume work on the antebellum period, "Road to Disunion."

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