A revealing look at the Japanese through the window of their contemporary culture.
Succinct, with a brace of original documents following each chapter, Christopher J. Olsen's The American Civil War is the ideal introduction to American history's most famous, and infamous, chapter.
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The largest and most destructive military conflict between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, The American Civil War has inspired some of the best and most intriguing scholarship...
Irresistibly written and incisive in its analysis, this is an indispensable account of America’s greatest conflict.
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The book concludes with an assessment of emancipation, the rebuilding of the economy, and the war's consequences. An array of primary documents supports the text, together with a chronology, glossary and Who's Who guide to key figures.
Period prints, photographs, and documents accompany this penetrating examination of the political, military, and social aspects of the War Between the States, tracing the conflict from the earliest divisions between North and South to the ...
The American Civil War: - Emphasizes the importance of Northern public opinion in shaping the meaning and outcome of the crisis - Argues that the war exposed deep social and political divisions within, as well as between, North and South - ...
... an ideal counterpoint to the grubby, corrupt and materialistic ethos of the age.23 Occasionally in 1861 doubts surfaced about this essentially optimistic view of war. j. E. B. Stuart confided to George Cary Eggleston that, ...
Features twenty-seven personal accounts of the Civil War from such Americans as Meriam Dean, Michael Ryan, and John Mercer Langston, representing both the North and the South and each experiencing the Civil War first-hand.