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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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| Langue: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of South Carolina Press,
1998.
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Table des matières:
- 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.