The War for a Nation: The American Civil War

ISBN-13: 9780415979900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 280 str.

Susan-Mary Grant

Opis

This is an introduction to the American Civil War from the perspective of military personnel and civilians who participated in the conflict. This work examines the war, its battles, and those who fought them - male and female, black and white.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Portents  2. Divisions  3. The Road to Perdition  4. All Quiet Along the Potomac  5. Battle Cry of Freedom  6. Into the West  7. The People Embodied  8. Lee's Miserables  Conclusion: Death of a President, Birth of a Nation

O autorze

Susan-Mary Grant is Reader in American History at the Newcastle University, UK. She is the author North Over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era (Kansas 2000) and the editor of Legacy of Disunion (LSU 2003). She is editor of American Nineteenth Century History (Taylor and Francis), and on the steering committee of ARENA (Association for Research into Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas) based at the Walker Institute, University of South Carolina.