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  • Uncommonly Savage

    Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States

    by Paul D. Escott ...
    “Truly impressive. Travels uncharted terrain, moving deftly through a vast scholarship in two languages. The research is sound, the prose crisp and accessible, and the subject unquestionably important.”—W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory“Illuminates the enduring potency of memory in shaping postwar societies for generations after the fighting ceased, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Many Excellent People

    Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900

    by Paul D. Escott ...
    Many Excellent People examines the nature of North Carolina’s social system, particularly race and class relations, power, and inequality, during the last half of the nineteenth century. Paul Escott portrays North Carolina’s major social groups, focusing on the elite, the ordinary white farmers or workers, and the blacks, and analyzes their attitudes, social structure, and power relationships. ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Worst Passions of Human Nature

    White Supremacy in the Civil War North

    by Paul D. Escott ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    The American North’s commitment to preventing a southern secession rooted in slaveholding suggests a society united in its opposition to slavery and racial inequality. The reality, however, was far more complex and troubling. In his latest book, Paul Escott lays bare the contrast between progress on emancipation and the persistence of white supremacy in the Civil War North. Escott analyzes ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Confederacy

    The Slaveholders' Failed Venture

    by Paul D. Escott ...
    Series series Reflections on the Civil War Era
    A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and the inherent contradictions that undermined that effort.Paul Escott's The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture offers a unique and multifaceted perspective on the United States' most pivotal and devastating conflict, examining the course of the Civil War from the perspective of the Southern ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • "What Shall We Do with the Negro?"

    Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America

    by Paul D. Escott ...
    Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "What shall we do with the negro?" The future status of African Americans was a pressing issue for those in both the North and in the South. Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents, ... Read more

    $33.79 USD

  • Slavery Remembered

    A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives

    by Paul D. Escott ...
    Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers’ Project. Paul Escott’s sensitive examination of each of the nearly 2,400 narratives and his quantitative analysis of the narratives as a whole eloquently present the differing beliefs and experiences of masters and slaves. The book describes slave attitudes and actions; slave ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Black Suffrage

    Lincoln's Last Goal

    by Paul D. Escott ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    In April 1865, as the Civil War came to a close, Abraham Lincoln announced his support for voting rights for at least some of the newly freed enslaved people. Esteemed historian Paul Escott takes this milestone as an opportunity to explore popular sentiment in the North on this issue and, at the same time, to examine the vigorous efforts of Black leaders, in both North and South, to organize, ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • The Civil War Political Tradition

    Ten Portraits of Those Who Formed It

    by Paul D. Escott ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter’s 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise but deeply learned and incisive biographies of key Americans in the years leading up to the Civil War. Escott profiles Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Lincoln's Dilemma

    Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era

    by Paul D. Escott ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. By the time this Illinois politician had risen to the office of president, the dilemma of slavery had expanded to the question of all African Americans’ future. In this fascinating new book Paul Escott considers the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Rethinking the Civil War Era

    Directions for Research

    by Paul D. Escott ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    Arguably, no event since the American Revolution has had a greater impact on US history than the Civil War. This devastating and formative conflict occupies a permanent place in the nation's psyche and continues to shape race relations, economic development, and regional politics. Naturally, an event of such significance has attracted much attention from historians, and tens of thousands of books ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Battlefield and Beyond

    Essays on the American Civil War

    by Orville Vernon Burton, Paul D. Escott, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Rosemarie Zagarri, Alan M. Kraut, Leonne Hudson, Michael Connolly, Daniel E. Sutherland, Emory M. Thomas, David Kyvig, Judith Gentry, Herman Hattaway, Ken Nivison, Jane Turner Censer ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne M. Hudson, and Daniel E. Sutherland delve into the master-slave relationship, the role of blacks in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Paying Freedom's Price

    A History of African Americans in the Civil War

    by Paul David Escott ...
    Series series The African American Experience Series
    Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans—both slave and free—from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or Lincoln’s emergence as the great emancipator, Escott concentrates on the black military and civilian ... Read more

    $44.59 USD