Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
121 produkter
Civilian War
Confederate Women and Union Soldiers During Sherman's March
Häftad, 2022
402 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Civilian War explores home front encounters between elite Confederate women and Union soldiers during Sherman's March, a campaign that put women at the center of a Union army operation for the first time. Ordered to crush the morale as well as the military infrastructure of the Confederacy, …
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era
Av Earl J. Hess
Inbunden, 2022
529 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Animals mattered in the Civil War. Horses and mules powered the Union and Confederate armies, providing mobility for wagons, pulling artillery pieces, and serving as fighting platforms for cavalrymen. Drafted to support the war effort, horses often died or suffered terrible wounds on the …
Tainted Breeze
The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862
Häftad, 1997
283 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Winner of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Book Prize and a Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History In the early morning hours of October 1, 1862, state militia arrested more than two hundred alleged Unionists from five North Texas counties and brought …
They Fought Like Demons
Women Soldiers in the American Civil War
Av DeAnne Blanton, Lauren Cook Wike
Inbunden, 2002
527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional picture does not tell …
Legacy of Disunion
The Enduring Significance of the American Civil War
Av Susan Mary Grant, Peter J. Parish
Inbunden, 2003
527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The conviction that the American Civil War left a massive legacy to the country has generally been much clearer than the definition of what that legacy is. Did the war, as Ulysses S. Grant believed, bequeath power, intelligence, and sectional harmony to America, or did it, as many have argued …
Justice of Shattered Dreams
Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era
Häftad, 2003
415 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816-1890) served on the nation's highest tribunal for twenty-eight tumultuous years and holds a place in legal history as one of the Court's most influential justices. Michael A. Ross creates a …
Lee in the Shadow of Washington
Häftad, 2004
353 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table's Laney Prize and the Virginia Historical Society's Richard L. Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia BiographyWhile most historians agree that Robert E. Lee's loyalty to Virginia was the key factor in his decision to join the Confederate cause, Richard …
Railroads in the Civil War
The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat
Av John E. Clark Jr, T Michael Parrish
Häftad, 2004
344 kr
Lägg i varukorg
By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. Gaps between lines, incompatible track gauges, and other vexing impediments remained in both the North …
Loyalty and Loss
Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Häftad, 2004
344 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Though slavery was widespread and antislavery sentiment rare in Alabama, there emerged a small loyalist population, mostly in the northern counties, that persisted in the face of overwhelming odds against their cause. Margaret M. Storey's welcome study uncovers and explores those Alabamians who …
Inside the Confederate Nation
Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas
Av Lesley J. Gordon, John C. Inscoe
Inbunden, 2005
758 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1970) and The Confederate Nation (1979), Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. Inside the Confederate Nation honors his enormous contributions to …
Emancipation Proclamation
Three Views
Av Harold Holzer, Edna G. Medford m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
354 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Emancipation Proclamation is the most important document of arguably the greatest president in U.S. history. Now, Edna Greene Medford, Frank J. Williams, and Harold Holzer -- eminent experts in their fields -- remember, analyse, and interpret the Emancipation Proclamation in three distinct …
Walker's Texas Division, C.S.a.
Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi
Av Richard Lowe
Häftad, 2006
402 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Colourfully known as the ""Greyhound Division"" for its lean and speedy marches across thousands of miles in three states, Major General John G. Walker's infantry division in the Confederate army was the largest body of Texans -- about 12,000 men at its formation -- to serve in the American Civil …
Black Patriot and a White Priest
Andre Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans
Häftad, 2006
449 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Stephen J. Ochs chronicles the intersecting lives of the first black military Civil War hero, Captain André Cailloux of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards, and the lone Catholic clerical voice of abolition in New Orleans, the Reverend Claude Paschal Maistre. Their paths converged in July 1863, when …
Blood Image
Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind
Häftad, 2006
442 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With Blood Image, Paul Anderson shows that the symbol of a man can be just as important as the man himself. Turner Ashby was one of the most famous fighting men of the Civil War. Rising to colonel of the 7th Virginia Cavalry, Ashby fought brilliantly under Thomas J. ""Stonewall"" Jackson during the …
Texas Terror
The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South
Inbunden, 2007
527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
On July 8, 1860, fire destroyed the entire business section of Dallas, Texas. At about the same time, two other fires damaged towns near Dallas. Early reports indicated that spontaneous combustion was the cause of the blazes, but four days later, Charles Pryor, editor of the Dallas Herald, wrote …
Counterfeit Justice
The Judicial Odyssey of Texas Freedwoman Azeline Hearne
Av Dale Baum
Inbunden, 2009
603 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil War ended, he publicly acknowledged his relationship …
Undaunted Radical
The Selected Writings and Speeches of Albion W. Tourgée
Av Mark Elliott, John David Smith
Häftad, 2010
449 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A leading proponent of racial equality in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century, Albion W. Tourgée (1838-1905) served as the most articulate spokesman of the radical wing of the Republican party, and he continued to advocate for its egalitarian ideals long after …
Los Brazos De Dios
A Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821-1865
Inbunden, 2010
527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Historians have long believed that the ""frontier"" shaped Texas plantation society, but in this detailed examination of Texas's most important plantation region, Sean M. Kelley asserts that the dominant influence was not the frontier but the Mexican Republic. The Lower Brazos River Valley -- the …
Reconstruction of Mark Twain
How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature
Inbunden, 2011
588 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who grew up in the border state of Missouri in a slave-holding family, was among them. Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer …
Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri
Balancing Freedom and Security
Inbunden, 2011
582 kr
Lägg i varukorg
During the Civil War, the state of Missouri presented President Abraham Lincoln, United States military commanders, and state officials with an array of complex and difficult problems. Although Missouri did not secede, a large minority of residents owned slaves, sympathised with secession, or …
Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation
African American Slaves and Christianity, 1830-1870
Inbunden, 2010
413 kr
Lägg i varukorg
During the Civil War, traditional history tells us, Afro-Christianity proved a strong force for slaves' perseverance and hope of deliverance. In Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation, however, Daniel Fountain raises the possibility that Afro-Christianity played a less significant role within the …
Civil War Senator
William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic
Inbunden, 2011
632 kr
Lägg i varukorg
One of the most talented and influential American politicians of the nineteenth century, William Pitt Fessenden (1806--1869) helped devise Union grand strategy during the Civil War. A native of Maine and son of a fiery New England abolitionist, he served in the United States Senate as a member of …
Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites
Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction
Häftad, 2010
344 kr
Lägg i varukorg
After the American Civil War, several movements for ethnic separatism and political self-determination significantly shaped the course of Reconstruction. The Union Leagues mobilised African Americans to fight for their political rights and economic security while the Ku Klux Klan used intimidation …
Confederate Invention
The Story of the Confederate States Patent Office and Its Inventors
Inbunden, 2011
585 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The formation of the Confederate States of America involved more than an attempt to create a new, sovereign nation -- it inspired a flurry of creativity and entrepreneurialism in the South that fiercely matched Union ingenuity. H. Jackson Knight's Confederate Invention brings to light the forgotten …
Inventing Stonewall Jackson
A Civil War Hero in History and Memory
Inbunden, 2011
523 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. ""Stonewall"" Jackson have proved uneven at best and often contentious. An occasionally enigmatic and eccentric college professor before the Civil War, Jackson died midway through the conflict, leaving behind no memoirs and …
Views from the Dark Side of American History
Häftad, 2011
281 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Throughout his long and influential career, Michael Fellman has explored the tragic side of American history. Best known for his path-breaking work on the American Civil War and for an interdisciplinary methodology that utilises social psychology, cultural anthropology, and comparative history, he …
Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory
Häftad, 2011
283 kr
Lägg i varukorg
At the now-peaceful spot of Tennessee's Fort Pillow State Historic Area, a horrific incident in the nation's bloodiest war occurred on April 12, 1864. Just as a high bluff in the park offers visitors a panoramic view of the Mississippi River, John Cimprich's absorbing book affords readers a new …
Confederate Heartland
Military and Civilian Morale in the Western Confederacy
Inbunden, 2011
527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Bradley R. Clampitt's The Confederate Heartland examines morale in the Civil War's western theater -- the region that witnessed the most consistent Union success and Confederate failure, and the battleground where many historians contend that the war was won and lost. Clampitt's western focus …
Rebels on the Border
Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri
Av Aaron Astor
Inbunden, 2012
585 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Rebels on the Border offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the ""borderland"" between the free North and the …
Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War
The Trials of John Merryman
Häftad, 2011
344 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman …
