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  • Veteran Americans

    Literature and Citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction

    de Benjamin Cooper ...
    Series series Veterans
    “I may dare to speak, and I intend to speak and write what I think,” wrote a New York volunteer serving in the Mexican War in 1848. Such sentiments of resistance and confrontation run throughout the literature produced by veteran Americans in the nineteenth century—from prisoner-of-war narratives and memoirs to periodicals, adventure pamphlets, and novels. Military men and women were active ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD

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  • This Republic of Suffering

    Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

    de Drew Gilpin Faust ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation.An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • A Slave No More

    Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

    de David W. Blight ...
    The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation.Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new addition to this imperative part of American history—the firsthand accounts of two slaves, John Washington ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Race and Reunion

    The Civil War in American Memory

    de David W. Blight ...
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals ... Leer más

    $18.09 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Destructive War

    William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans

    de Charles Royster ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic

    de Julia A. Stern ...
    A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated ... Leer más

    $48.29 USD

  • Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the Plantation Legend

    de Catherine Clinton ...
    Cutting through romantic myth, this captivating volume combines period photographs and illustrations with new documentary sources to tell the real story of southern women during the Civil War.Drawing from a wealth of poignant letters, diaries, slave narratives, and other accounts, Catherine Clinton provides a vivid social and cultural history of the diverse communities of Southern women during the ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Drawn with the Sword

    Reflections on the American Civil War

    de James M. McPherson ...
    James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." Now, in Drawn With the Sword, McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and engaging ... Leer más

    $18.09 USD

  • So Conceived and So Dedicated

    Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North

    de Lorien Foote, Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai ...
    "Outstanding essays" exploring how educated Northerners viewed, and discussed, the Civil War (Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News).With contributions from multiple historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the Civil War and implementing their vision of a victorious Union. Broadly defining "intellectuals" to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Civil War in Popular Culture

    Memory and Meaning

    de Lawrence A. Kreiser, Randal Allred ...
    "An important read for anyone trying to sort through the current social and political controversy over the question of how do we memorialize the Civil War." — Strategy PageDividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country's destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U.S. economic, cultural, and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mothers of Invention

    Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

    de Drew Gilpin Faust ...
    When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Civil War Guerrilla

    Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth

    de Joseph M. Beilein Jr., Matthew C. Hulbert ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    Civil War historians shed new light on the importance of guerrilla combat across the south in this "useful and fascinating work" ( Choice).Touching states from Virginia to New Mexico, guerrilla warfare played a significant yet underexamined role in the Civil War. Guerrilla fighters fought for both the Union and the Confederacy—as well as their own ethnic groups, tribes, or families. They were ... Leer más

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