Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction
- ISBN-10
- 0070458421
- ISBN-13
- 9780070458420
- Series
- Ordeal By Fire
- Category
- Reconstruction
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Companies
- Author
- James M. McPherson
Description
"While it has been a matter of quiet satisfaction that the main outlines of the story require little or no revision in the light of these new studies, I welcome the opportunity to refine or expand my treatment of several subjects that have been the focus of particularly intensive scholarship in the recent years: the changing status of women during this [Civil War] era, and their contributions to the war efforts of both sides ; the impact of economic growth on the antebellum working class ; the ambivalent position of nonslaveholding whites in a slave society at war ; internal political and social issues in the Confederacy ; and the active part the slave population took in their own emancipation"--Pref., 2nd ed.
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