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Taylor & Francis Civil War America
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Taylor & Francis Women During the Civil War
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Taylor & Francis The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 Ezra A Carmans Definitive Study of the Union and Confederate Armies at Antietam
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Younger Pitt Profiles In Power
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Taylor & Francis Oliver Cromwell
Book SynopsisOliver Cromwell is one of the most puzzling and controversial figures in English history. In this excellent introduction, Barry Coward uses Cromwell's own words and actions to analyse the life of Oliver Cromwell as a political figure and look at the historical problems associated with his exercise of power.Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Unknown Cromwell 2. Cromwell and the Civil War, 1642-46 3. The Search for Settlement, 1646-49 4. Cromwell and the Rump, 1649-53 5. Cromwell and the Godly Reformation, 1653-54 6. Parliament and Personal Rule, September 1654- September 1656 7. The Continuing Quest for Settlement and Reformation, September 1656 – September 1658 8. Conclusion List of Dates Bibliographical Essay Index
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Taylor & Francis The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine
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Taylor & Francis The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Slavery War and a New Birth of Freedom 1840s1877 History Through Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Slavery War and a New Birth of Freedom 1840s1877 Sharpe Insights
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Taylor & Francis Black Boston African American Life and Culture in Urban America 17501860 4 Routledge Library Editions Urban History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Power of NeoSlave Fiction and Public History
Book SynopsisProfessional historians, schools, colleges and universities are not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history. The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves the focus from slavery to the enslavedfrom the institution to the personal, families and feminist accounts.In a broader sense, this contributes to a public history. In part, using the quickly growing corpus of neo-slave counterfactual narratives, this book examines the notion of the emerging slavery public history, and the extent to which this is defined by literature, film and other forms of artistic expression, rather than non-fictionpopular or scholarlyand education in history in the school systems. Inter alia, this book looks to the validity of historical fiction in print or in film as a way of understanding history. A focal point of this book is the hypothesis that neo-slave narrativessupported by selectivTrade Review"The human stories authentically leap from the pages eloquently in Grant Rodwell’s latest book. Painstakingly researched and brilliantly told… simply splendid!An account throughout that is sensitive, colourful and compelling. Composed yet again with rare skill by the remarkable man from Oberon. A book of dramatic sweep and great narrative strength."John Ramsland, Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle, AustraliaTable of ContentsContentsAbstractDedicationAcronyms and abbreviationsAcknolwedgementsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: From slavery to the enslaved: new paradigms, neo-slave fiction, a shared history and higher-order historical thinkingChapter 2 Slavery and the enslaved: breaking boundaries with neo-slave narrativesChapter 3 Antebellum neo-slave narratives, history and historiography: higher-order thinking and a public historyChapter 4 The enslaved, slavery, the Civil War and ReconstructionChapter 5 Jim Crow and slavery’s immediate aftermathGeneral conclusionsBibliography
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Cambridge University Press Reunion Without Compromise
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Cambridge University Press American Sovereigns
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Cambridge University Press Slavery Race and Conquest in the Tropics
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Cambridge University Press Conflict and Compromise
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Cambridge University Press The Congressmans Civil War
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Cambridge University Press The Congressmans Civil War Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History
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Cambridge University Press Toward a Social History of the American Civil War
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Cambridge University Press Victorian America and the Civil War
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Cambridge University Press Slaves No More
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Cambridge University Press One South or Many
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Cambridge University Press Victorian America and the Civil War
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Cambridge University Press On the Road to Total War
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Cambridge University Press One South or Many
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Cambridge University Press On the Road to Total War
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Cambridge University Press Freedoms Soldiers
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Cambridge University Press Freedoms Soldiers
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Cambridge University Press Slavery Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic Volume 2 The Coming of the Civil War 18501861
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Cambridge University Press Slavery Race and Conquest in the Tropics
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Cambridge University Press Diary of a Christian Soldier
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Cambridge University Press Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War
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Cambridge University Press American Sovereigns
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Cambridge University Press Slavery Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic Volume 2 The Coming of the Civil War 18501861
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Cambridge University Press NineteenthCentury American Literature and the Long Civil War 174 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 174
Book SynopsisAmerican literature in the nineteenth century is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. In Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War, Cody Marrs argues that the war is a far more elastic boundary for literary history than has frequently been assumed. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took imaginative shape across, and even beyond, the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms and expressions for decades after 1865. These writers, Marrs demonstrates, are best understood not as antebellum or postbellum figures but as transbellum authors who cipher their later experiences through their wartime impressions and prewar ideals. This book is a bold, revisionary contribution to debates about temporality, periodization, and the shape of American literary history.Table of Contents1. Walt Whitman's dialectics; 2. Frederick Douglass's revisions; 3. Herman Melville's Civil Wars; 4. Emily Dickinson's erasures.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc April 1865
Book SynopsisOne month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee''s harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln''s assassination just five days later and a near-successful plot to decapitate the Union government, followed by chaos and coup fears in the North, collapsed negotiations and continued bloodshed in the South, and finally, the start of national reconciliation.In the end, April 1865 emerged as not just the tale of the war''s denouement, but the story of the making of our nation.Jay Winik offers a brilliant new look at the Civil War''s final days that will forever change the way we see the war''s end and the nation''s new beginning. Uniquely set within the larger sweep of history and filled with rich profiles of outsize figures, fresh iconoclastic scholarship, and a gripping narrative, this is a masterful account of the thirty most pivotal days in the life of the United States.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Lincolns Assassins
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Gettysburg Address
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Liar Temptress Soldier Spy
Book Synopsis“Not for nothing has Abbott been called a ‘pioneer of sizzle history.’ Here she creates a gripping page-turner that moves at a breathtaking clip through the dramatic events of the Civil War.” — Los Angeles TimesKaren Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women - a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow - who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds cut off her hair and assumed the identity of a man to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The beautiful widow, Rose O’Nea
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Civil War in 50 Objects
Book SynopsisThe American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil WarFrom a soldier’s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown’s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln’s bier, here is a unique and surprisingly intimate look at the Civil War.Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer sheds new light on the war by examining fifty objects from the New-York Historical Society’s acclaimed collection. A daguerreotype of an elderly, dignified ex-slave; a soldier’s footlocker still packed with its contents; Grant’s handwritten terms of surrender at Appomattox—the stories these objects tell are rich, poignant, sometimes painful, and always fascinating. They illuminate the conflict from all perspectives—Union and Confederate, military and civilian, black and white, male and female—and give readers a deeply human sense of the war.Trade Review“In his new book, The Civil War in 50 Objects, Harold Holzer uses pictures of a fascinating menagerie of Civil War-related items to distill what historian Eric Foner calls in his introduction a conflict that ‘permanently affected the future course of the development of the United States. Holzer handles the task with ease, showcasing the era through such artifacts as a pair of slave’s shackles sized for the wrists of a child and a copy, signed by Abraham Lincoln, of the manuscript for the 13th Amendment..”—The Washington Post “Packaged in an unusually high-quality edition, this book is the next best thing to viewing the artifacts in person or, given Holzer’s thorough explanation of the history of each object, it might be even better.”—The Seattle Times “Holzer's essays educate and entertain, folding in noteworthy asides…. Holzer pieces [the objects] together to create a compelling story of the people who lived during the bloodiest war in American history — a war that jumped the boundaries of the battlefield to spark a race riot on July 10, 1863.”—The Chicago Tribune “The Civil War in 50 Objects is a collection of deeply researched essays by the Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer. Mr. Holzer examines war-era artifacts culled from the collection at the New-York Historical Society, where he is a Roger Hertog Fellow, to get at a deeper truth about the single most defining event in American history.”—New York Observer “Holzer, working through the archives of the New-York Historical Society, unearths treasures, if sometimes grim ones. Holzer’s choice of objects is spot-on, and the anecdotes they occasion are even more so, particularly when he turns to little-commemorated episodes such as the valiant charge of 14 New York dragoons against a much larger Confederate force (it did not end well for the dragoons) and the effect of the Union blockade on school primers in the South. A valuable addition to the popular literature of the Civil War, well-conceived and packaged.”—Kirkus
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OUP India The Causes of the Civil War Debating American
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Oxford University Press Inc Abraham Lincoln
Book SynopsisThe first short biography of the sixteenth president by America''s preeminent Civil War historian, Abraham Lincoln follows the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks from their Kentucky farm to the Illinois legislature, and finally the nation''s capitol. February of 2009 marks the bicentennial of his birth and this book will be a compact, concise history of a man with big ideals and an even larger legacy. James McPherson, our country''s foremost historian of the Civil War, authors this attractively packaged book on Lincoln for an audience that would prefer a brief treament rather than David Herbert Donald''s 720-page opus, or Michael Burlingame''s forthcoming multi-volume work.Trade ReviewElegant * Financial Times *...this is an excellent account of the immense challenges Lincoln faced and the remarkable skill he brought to his task. * Dan Danbom, Rocky Mountain News *
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Random House USA Inc What This Cruel War Was Over
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Picador USA Midnight Rising
Book SynopsisPlotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in US history. Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. This book portrays Brown's uprising in vivid colour, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group This Republic of Suffering
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WW Norton & Co Lincolns Avengers
Book SynopsisDid the federal government mete out justice or revenge in response to Lincoln's assassination?
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WW Norton & Co William Tecumseh Sherman In the Service of My
Book SynopsisThe New York Times best-selling biography of one of America’s most storied military figures.Trade Review"[McDonough] offers a great deal of shrewd military analysis, but what gives the book its vigor is [his] presentation of Sherman’s propulsive personality." -- Richard Snow - The Wall Street Journal"[McDonough] tells this story well." -- Thomas E. Ricks - New York Times Book Review"A fascinating American life." -- John Timpane - Philadelphia Inquirer"Superbly researched and richly detailed, James McDonough’s William Tecumseh Sherman judiciously guides the reader through the epic life of the man who might be history’s most complicated soldier. For Sherman fans it is a must-read, and for others, a worthwhile endeavor." -- Robert L. O’Connell, best-selling author of Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman"James McDonough’s William Tecumseh Sherman is the first major biography of this complex, challenging figure in almost a quarter century, and it is deeply researched and thoughtfully presented. Engagingly written, it brings new perspective to Sherman’s prewar years and the benefit of a lifetime of study to his Civil War career. Perhaps no one will ever completely capture Sherman, but McDonough’s wide net snares more than enough of the new with the old to make this a life well worth reading." -- William C. Davis, author of Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee—The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged"A vigorous military biography…welcome reading for any student of Civil War history." -- Kirkus, starred review"A well-rounded study…Everything about this book will interest readers who want to know more about antebellum America and the Civil War." -- Library Journal, starred review
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W. W. Norton & Company Two Communities in the Civil War
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