Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future

ISBN-13: 9780190868161 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str.

Jason Phillips

Opis

The Civil War haunted Americans long before it happened. As this innovative book shows, forecasts and prophecies of bloodshed shaped how people approached the conflict and reacted to its unfolding drama. The war changed America's future and transformed how Americans have thought about the future ever since.

Recenzje

a groundbreaking history about how Americans viewed the impending crisis. In it, he introduces the reader to a new way of examining history, namely how Americans anticipated the future for themselves as well as for the country at large. He overturns myths about the Civil War ... Phillips examines diaries, prophecies, dreams, art, literature, and sermons by a wide variety of Northerners and Southerners ... Highly recommended.

O autorze

Jason Phillips is the Eberly Family Professor of Civil War Studies in the Department of History at West Virginia University. He is the author of Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility and the editor of Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South.