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 in the field, and reworked for this new edition, explore how, and in what ways, differing interpretations of the war have arisen, and explains clearly why the American Civil War remains a subject of enduring interest. It includes chapters covering four broad areas, including The Political...
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...
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.
This is an introduction to the American Civil War from the perspective of military personnel and civilians who participated in the conflict. This work...
Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations, even as its past continues to inform its present and to mould its very identity as a nation. The search for nationhood and the ambiguities upon which the nation was founded are at the root of this intelligent and forthright book. Taking a broadly chronological approach, it begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety, and accompanied by the diseases which would ravage...
Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations, even...
Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations, even as its past continues to inform its present and to mould its very identity as a nation. The search for nationhood and the ambiguities upon which the nation was founded are at the root of this intelligent and forthright book. Taking a broadly chronological approach, it begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety, and accompanied by the diseases which would ravage...
Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations, even...
