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The Civil War : a concise history /
One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The Civil War: A Concise History offers a maste...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [U.K.] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The Civil War: A Concise History offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic effects. Masur begins by examining the complex origins of the war, focusing on the pulsating tensions over states rights and slavery. The book then proceeds to cover, year by year, the major political, social, and military even. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 118 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-109) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199792399 0199792399 1283009900 9781283009904 9786613009906 6613009903 |