The American War : a history of the Civil War era
Record details
- ISBN: 9780991037513
- ISBN: 0991037510
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Physical Description:
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291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - Edition: First Flip Learning hardcover edition.
- Publisher: State College, PA : Flip Learning, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Expansion, nation, and perception : the road to secession and war -- Two republics gird for war -- War in earnest : shifting military tides in 1862 -- A war of citizen-soldiers -- The process of emancipation -- Heavy blows but no decision : the winter of 1862 to the spring of 1864 -- A struggle between nations -- Women and the war -- Pressing through to Union victory : the spring of 1864 to the spring of 1865 -- Reconstruction and the problems of reunification, 1863-1868 -- The end of reconstruction, 1868-1877 -- The wartime generation that remembers the conflict. |
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Subject: | United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 |
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The American War : A History of the Civil War Era
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The American War : A History of the Civil War Era
In The American War, renowned historians Gary W. Gallagher and Joan Waugh provide a fresh examination of the Civil War, its aftermath, and enduring memory in a masterful work that prize-winning historian William C. Davis calls, "easily the best one-volume assessment of the Civil War to date." Nothing had prepared Americans for the fury that ensued when eleven slaveholding states seceded and formed the Confederacy in 1860-1861. Four years of fighting claimed more than 1.4 million casualties, directly affected the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians, and freed four million enslaved black people. The durability of the Union was confirmed, and the social and economic system based on slavery lay in ruins. By investigating this crucial period through the eyes of civilians, celebrated leaders, and citizen soldiers, readers interested in the Civil War era will gain a profound understanding of the dramatic events, personalities, and social and economic processes that caused the war, enabled the Union to prevail, and forever transformed the United States. It also will help readers understand why, more than 150 years after Appomattox, it remains impossible to grasp the larger sweep of U.S. history without coming to terms with the American War.