Battle Cry of Freedom: The American Civil War

ISBN-13: 9780140125184 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 904 str.

James M. McPherson

Opis

This text presents a history of the American Civil War. It starts with an account of the years before the civil war and its causes - placing slavery firmly back in the centre stage - before discussing the war, the two sides, the international dimension, the position and role of the free blacks and slaves, to its outcome, the end of the war and reconstruction.

Recenzje

The definitive study, meticulous in its scholarship and compulsive in its readability Financial Times

O autorze

James McPherson is Professor Emeritus of American History at Princeton University. Battle Cry of Freedom won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2003.