Drawn with the sword: reflections on the American Civil War
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1. Verfasser: McPherson, James M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1996
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Beschreibung:1. Antebellum Southern Exceptionalism: A New Look at an Old Question -- 2. Tom on the Cross -- 3. The War of Southern Aggression -- 4. The War that Never Goes Away -- 5. From Limited to Total War, 1861-1865 -- 6. Race and Class in the Crucible of War -- 7. The Glory Story -- 8. Why Did the Confederacy Lose? -- 9. How the Confederacy Almost Won -- 10. Lee Dissected -- 11. Grant's Final Victory -- 12. A New Birth of Freedom -- 13. Who Freed the Slaves? -- 14. "The Whole Family of Man": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope Abroad -- 15. What's the Matter with History?
Includes bibliographical references and index
This series of essays reveal McPherson's profound knowedge of the Civil War and of the controversies among historians that have existed about aspects of it. He is eminently fair in stating the opposing arguments in each of these controversies, but his own measured opinions are always clearly stated and are invariably persuasive
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 258 p.)
ISBN:0195096797
1280528079
1429406631
9780195096798
9781280528071
9781429406635

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