A Place Called Appomattox /

In A Place Called Appomattox, William Marvel turns his extensive Civil War scholarship toward Appomattox County, Virginia, and the village of Appomattox Court House, which became synonymous with the end of the Civil War when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant there in 1865. Marvel present...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
War > Causes.
Social conditions
Social aspects.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
HISTORY.
Appomattox Campaign, 1865.
Virginia > Appomattox County.
Virginia > Appomattox.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Aspect social.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
Appomattox County (Va.) > Social conditions.
Appomattox County (Va.) > History.
Appomattox (Va.) > Social conditions.
Appomattox (Va.) > History.
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In A Place Called Appomattox, William Marvel turns his extensive Civil War scholarship toward Appomattox County, Virginia, and the village of Appomattox Court House, which became synonymous with the end of the Civil War when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant there in 1865. Marvel presents a formidably researched and elegantly written analysis of the county from 1848 to 1877, using it as a microcosm of Southern attitudes, class issues, and shifting cultural mores that shaped the Civil War and its denouement. With an eye toward correcting cultural myths an.
Physical Description:1 online resource (416 pages).
ISBN:9780809387205

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