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The Battlefield and Beyond : Essays on the American Civil War /

In The Battlefield and Beyond the nation's leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era. Orvill...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Jewett, Clayton E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Race and warfare in the South
  • The silence of a slaveholder: the Civil War letters of James B. Griffin / Orville Vernon Burton
  • Robert E. Lee and the Arming of Black Men / Leonne M. Hudson
  • Guerrilla Warfare, Democracy, and the Fate of the Confederacy / Daniel E. Sutherland
  • Leadership in the Confederacy
  • Jefferson Davis and Stephen D. Lee / Herman Hattaway
  • Evaluating Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederacy / Paul D. Escott
  • Edmund Kirby Smith's Early Leadership in the Trans-Mississippi / Judith F. Gentry
  • Despotism and Confederate Defeat
  • "Irresistible Outbreaks against Tories and Traitors": The Suppression of New England Antiwar Sentiment in 1861 / Michael J. Connolly
  • Senator Williamson S. Oldham and Confederate Defeat / Clayton E. Jewett
  • Reconstruction and the New South
  • Transforming Original Intent: The U.S. Constitution in the Civil War and Reconstruction Era / David E. Kyvig
  • Goldberger and Gershwin: Two New York Jews Encounter the American South in the Early Twentieth Century / Alan M. Kraut
  • Memory and the American Civil War
  • The Psychology of Hatred and the Ideology of Honor: Current Parallels in Booth's Lincoln Conspiracies / Bertram Wyatt-Brown
  • Field of Mighty Memory: Gettysburg and the Americanization of the Civil War / Kenneth Nivison
  • Of Health and History: The Museum of the Confederacy / Emory M. Thomas
  • Jon L. Wakelyn's Contribution / Jane Turner Censer and Rosemarie Zagarri
  • Selected Works / Jon L. Wakelyn.