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The American Civil War
Hardcover
Series: American History in Depth, Book 18
ISBN13: 9780333790533
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 1 2007
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.75 Depth: 8.68
Language: English
The American Civil War was by far the bloodiest conflict in American history. Arising out of a political crisis over the expansion of slavery, the war set the stage for the emergence of the modern American nation-state. This new interpretation of one of the most mythologized events in modern history combines narrative with analysis and an up-to-date assessment of the state of Civil War scholarship.
The American Civil War:- Argues that the war exposed deep social and political divisions within, as well as between, North and South
- Explores the experiences of ordinary soldiers and civilians, and the political and cultural context in which they lived
- Sets this distinctively American crisis over slavery and nationhood in the wider context of the nineteenth-century world Concise and authoritative, this is an indispensable introduction to a critical period in modern American history.
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