Themes of the American Civil War the war between the states /
Themes of the American Civil War offers a timely and useful guide to this vast topic for a new generation of students. The volume provides a broad-ranging assessment of the causes, complexities, and consequences of America's most destructive conflict to date. The essays, written by top scholars...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2009.
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| Edition: | Rev. 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- One and inseparable. The state of the Union, 1776-1860 / Donald Ratcliffe
- And the war came
- Southern secession in 1860-1861 / Bruce Collins
- The first of the modern wars? / Joseph G. Dawson III
- The experience of the Civil War : men at arms / Andrew Haughton
- Command and leadership in the Civil War, 1861-1865 / Brian Holden Reid
- Abraham Lincoln, the presidency, and the mobilization of Union sentiment / Richard Carwardine
- Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy / Martin Crawford
- Capitalism and the Civil War / John Ashworth
- Emancipation : race and gender in the Civil War. Fighting for freedom : African-American soldiers in the Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant
- The fight for black suffrage in the War of the Rebellion / Robert Cook
- "What did we go to war for?" Confederate emancipation and its meaning / Bruce Levine
- Slavery and emancipation : the African-American experience during the Civil War / David Turley
- "To bind up the nation's wounds" : women and the American Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant
- Legacy. From union to nation? The Civil War and the development of American nationalism / Susan-Mary Grant
- Individual rights and constitutional powers : the impact of the Civil War / Pat Lucie.