In the Presence of Mine Enemies (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
496
Utgivningsdatum
2004-10-01
Upplaga
New ed
Utmärkelser
Winner of Bancroft Prize 2004
Förlag
WW Norton & Co
Illustrationer
27 illustrations, 1 map
Dimensioner
208 x 143 x 30 mm
Vikt
445 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780393326017

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864

av Edward L Ayers
Häftad,  Engelska, 2004-10-01
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Our standard Civil War histories tell a reassuring story of the triumph, in an inevitable conflict, of the dynamic, free-labor North over the traditional, slave-based South, vindicating the freedom principles built into the nation's foundations. But at the time, on the borderlands of Pennsylvania and Virginia, no one expected war, and no one knew how it would turn out. The one certainty was that any war between the states would be fought in their fields and streets. Edward L. Ayers gives us a different Civil War, built on an intimate scale. He charts the descent into war in the Great Valley spanning Pennsylvania and Virginia. Connected by strong ties of every kind, including the tendrils of slavery, the people of this borderland sought alternatives to secession and war. When none remained, they took up war with startling intensity. As this book relays with a vivid immediacy, it came to their doorsteps in hunger, disease, and measureless death. Ayers's Civil War emerges from the lives of everyday people as well as those who helped shape historyJohn Brown and Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, Jackson, and Lee. His story ends with the valley ravaged, Lincoln's support fragmenting, and Confederate forces massing for a battle at Gettysburg.
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"Ayers unfolds this historical process with penetrating analysis and relevant quotations, emphasizing the anxiety, excitement, and misery...the war provoked." -- Gilbert Taylor - Booklist "This original and gracefully written work, based on exhaustive primary research, should be required reading for Civil War enthusiass and scholars alike." -- John Carver - Library Journal "A movingly human chronicle [of]...the transformation by civil war of two groups of Americans." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch

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Edward L. Ayers, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, has won the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes for his innovative histories of Civil War America. He is president emeritus of the University of Richmond, where he is executive director of New American History.

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