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Writing the Civil War : The Quest to Understand /

"No event has transformed the United States more fundamentally - or been studied more exhaustively - than the Civil War. In Writing the Civil War, fourteen distinguished historians present a wide-ranging discussion of the vast effort to chronicle the conflict - an undertaking that began with th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cooper, William J., Jr. (William James), 1940-, McPherson, James M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper, Jr.
  • Blueprint for victory: Northern strategy and military policy / Gary W. Gallagher
  • Rebellion and conventional warfare: Confederate strategy and military policy / Emory M. Thomas
  • Battlefield tactics / Joseph Glatthaar
  • "Not the general but the soldier": the study of Civil War soldiers / Reid Mitchell
  • Abraham Lincoln vs. Jefferson Davis: comparing presidential leadership in the Civil War / Mark Neely, Jr.
  • An elusive synthesis: Northern politics during the Civil War / Michael F. Holt
  • Beyond state rights: the shadowy world of Confederate politics / George Rable
  • Constitutional crisis / Michael Les Benedict
  • What did the winners win? the social and economic history of the North during the Civil War / Phillip Shaw Paludan
  • Behind the lines: Confederate economy and society / James L. Roark
  • "Ours as well as that of the men": women and gender in the Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust
  • Slavery and freedom in the Civil War South / Peter Kolchin
  • Index.