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Opening America's Market
U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776
Häftad, 1999
546 kr
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Despite the passage of NAFTA and other recent free trade victories in the United States, former U.S. trade official Alfred Eckes warns that these developments have a dark side. Opening America's Market offers a bold critique of U.S. trade policies over the last sixty years, placing them within a …
Disunion!
The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
Häftad, 2010
458 kr
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In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, ""disunion"" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting …
Civil War in the West
Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
Av Earl J. Hess
Inbunden, 2012
764 kr
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The Western theatre of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West, there would be little hope of preserving the …
At the Precipice
Americans North and South During the Secession Crisis
Häftad, 2014
474 kr
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Why did eleven slave states secede from the Union in 1860-61? Why did the eighteen free states loyal to the Union deny the legitimacy of secession, and take concrete steps after Fort Sumter to subdue what President Abraham Lincoln deemed treasonous rebellion? At the Precipice seeks to answer these …
God's Almost Chosen Peoples
A Religious History of the American Civil War
Häftad, 2015
489 kr
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Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize-winning historian George C. Rable …
Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation
Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War
Häftad, 2015
401 kr
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The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the …
Civil War in the West
Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
Av Earl J. Hess
Häftad, 2015
474 kr
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The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West, there would be little hope of preserving the …
War on the Waters
The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865
Häftad, 2015
416 kr
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Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and …
Blue and Gray Diplomacy
A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations
Av Howard Jones
Häftad, 2016
547 kr
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In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil. Jones explores a number of themes, including …
Remembering the Civil War
Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
Häftad, 2016
401 kr
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As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation - men and women, black …
With Malice Toward Some
Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era
Häftad, 2019
474 kr
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Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But as William A. Blair shows in this engaging history, the way politicians, soldiers, and civilians dealt with disloyalty varied widely. Citizens often moved more …
Illusions of Emancipation
The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
Häftad, 2020
416 kr
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As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors, emancipation necessitated a …
War for the Common Soldier
How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Häftad, 2021
401 kr
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How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the …
Ordeal of the Reunion
A New History of Reconstruction
Häftad, 2021
430 kr
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For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. In The Ordeal of the Reunion, Mark Wahlgren Summers goes beyond this vitally important …
Theater of a Separate War
The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865
Häftad, 2023
430 kr
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Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the …
Contest of Civilizations
Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era
Häftad, 2022
372 kr
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Most mid-nineteenth-century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans …
Women's Fight
The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
Häftad, 2022
343 kr
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Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war"—the military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery. In this broadly conceived book, Thavolia Glymph provides a comprehensive new history of women's roles and …
