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University Press of the Pacific Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War 18611865 The
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University Press of the Pacific The Medics War United States Army in the Korean War
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University Press of the Pacific Truce Tent and Fighting Front United States Army in the Korean War
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Fragile Fabric of Union
Book SynopsisThe story he tells reveals the opportunities and costs of cotton production for the Lower South and the United States.Trade ReviewSchoen has written an immensely important history of southern political economy, one that is destined to be prominent in future studies of the Old South. -- James L. Huston Civil War Book Review 2010 Schoen's chronological approach in five chapter develops his arguments and does a masterful job of keeping the focus on cotton, its politics, its exploitation of slaves, and ultimately the self-delusions of the cotton states vis-a-vis the world... An excellent book on all counts. Highly recommended. Choice 2010 A sophisticated, nuanced analysis of elite political-economic rhetoric in the antebellum South. -- Lawrence A. Peskin North Carolina Historical Review 2010 In sure-footed fashion, Brian Schoen guides the reader through overlooked issues in the oft-told account of southern secession. -- Frank J. Byrne Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 2010 Students of the causes of the Civil War should read The Fragile Fabric of Union. It is well written and extensively documented... The author brings the issues to life by illustrating how economic self interested colored the views of the South to the point that it was willing to sunder the Union and go to war. -- Stephen Donnelly Historical Journal of Massachusetts 2010 I found myself reading this book in light of current events. Schoen does a good job pointing out that legislative victors may rue their triumph, while losers may inadvertently reap benefits from loathed legislation... The book is clearly written. -- David G. Surdam Journal of Economic History 2010 Impressive... Adds an intriguing new dimension to ongoing debates about the nature of southern economic development, what motivated southern states to secede, why they seceded when they did, and ultimately what caused the Civil War. -- Beth English American Historical Review 2010 In this provocative book, he forces historians who have not done so already to discount 'Lost Cause' lore and pay greater attention to southerners who thought they could use their monopoly in raw cotton as leverage to advance the interests of their region in the larger world. -- Glenn C. Altschuler Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2010 An important contribution to the reinterpretation of plantation slavery and the origins of the U.S. Civil War... A lucidly written, richly researched, and convincing analysis of the global forces that shaped the politics of the southern slaveholders. -- Charles Post Journal of American History There is much to admire in Brian Schoen's ambitious new book... A remarkable scholarly debut that represents one of the most important studies of 'why the South fought' to be released in over a generation. -- Scott P. Marler Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2009 Schoen's readable prose deserves a wide audience. His explanations of tariffs and other economic issues are clear, and he has admirable command of a wide range of political and economic subjects (both domestically and in foreign relations). This book will be a welcome addition to the bookshelf of any scholar of the antebellum era. -- Aaron W. Marrs Technology and Culture 2011 Schoen extends the transatlantic dimensions of this era; just as the politics of slavery were shaped by developments in the Caribbean and Europe, so too did the political economy of cotton stretch throughout the Atlantic world. This book should be read by all those interested in broadening their understanding of both the Atlantic world of the nineteenth century and the coming of the American Civil War. -- Ed Rugemer H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews Schoen challenges previous studies and underscores the impact of external global economics as a primary cause of the Civil War. This contention is likely to stir controversy and healthy debate. -- Michael Russert Civil War News 2010 Schoen's Fragile Fabric commendably sheds renewed light on the conflict's origins at the local, sectional, and transatlantic level. -- Marc-William Palen Southern Historian 2011Table of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPrologue, 1781. The Threads of a Global Loom: Cotton, Slavery, and Union in an Interdependent Atlantic, 1789–1820Cotton, Empire, and NationThe Formation of a Transatlantic Cotton InterestCotton's "Revolution" and Its Limits2. Calculating the Cost of Union: Nationalism and Sectionalism in a Republican Era, 1796–1818The Cotton South and a Republican Coalition of "Equals""The Honor of Bearing It Best": Cotton, Commercial Warfare, and WarPeace Abroad, Dissension at Home: Republicans Active and Passive3. Protecting Slavery and Free Trade: The Political Economy of Cotton, 1818– 1833Panic and ProtectionCotton and a Harmonious Domestic and International Division of Labor"Unequal" Protection under the Law and Cotton's Minority Status4. Building Bridges to the West and the World: Empowerment and Anxiety in the Second Party System, 1834–1848Publishing the "Banns" of Marriage: The Search for Lower South Commercial AdvancementAmerican Proslavery Thought in the Age of British AbolitionThe Second Party System in the Cotton South5. An Unnatural Union: King Cotton and Lower South Secession, 1849– 1860Economic Advancement in an Age of Democratic AscendanceConverting Friends to Enemies and Enemies to Friends: The Search for Natural AlliesRealists Decide: Election and SecessionEpilogue, 1861NotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Trafford Publishing A Blue Bellied Yankee
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Outskirts Press Civil War History and Roster of the First New York Dragoons
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Outskirts Press Enough to Make Angels Weep
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Read Books Jim Bridger Mountain Man
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AuthorHouse Secret Soldiers of the Second Army
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AuthorHouse The Fedayeen Emerge
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Xlibris Corporation A Lonely Kind of War
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Xlibris Corporation A Lonely Kind of War
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Xlibris That Time That Place That War
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Descendants of Hans Michael Wallick in the American Civil War One Familys Journey Through The War of the Rebellion
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The University of North Carolina Press Gender and the Sectional Conflict
Book SynopsisIn an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. She argues that attitudes about gender shaped the experiences of the Civil War's participants, including how soldiers and their female kin thought about their causes and obligations in wartime.
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The University of North Carolina Press American Civil Wars
Book SynopsisAmerican Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world, marked by a multitude of civil wars, European invasions and occupations, revolutionary independence movements, and slave uprisingsall taking place in the tumultuous decade of the 1860s. The multiple conflicts described in these essays illustrate how the United States' sectional strife was caught up in a larger, complex struggle in which nations and empires on both sides of the Atlantic vied for the control of the future. These struggles were all part of a vast web, connecting not just Washington and Richmond but also Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, and Rio de Janeiro and--on the other side of the Atlantic--London, Paris, Madrid, and Rome. This volume breaks new ground by charting a h
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp John Hunt Morgan and His Great Raid
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Naval & Military Press A Surgical Artist at War
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iUniverse The Town That Started the Civil War
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Military Records February 1968 3rd Marine Division The Tet Offensive
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform William Quantrill and Quantrills Raiders The Confederacys Most Notorious Bushwhackers
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Behind the Rifle Women Soldiers in Civil War
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study that discusses women soldiers with a connection to Mississippi - either those who hailed from the Magnolia State or those from elsewhere who fought in Mississippi battles. Readers will learn who they were, why they chose to fight at a time when military service for women was banned, and the horrors they experienced.
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Xlibris Corporation The Battle Of New Orleans Reconsidered
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Battle of Seven Pines: The History of the First Major Battle of the 1862 Peninsula Campaign
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War: Authentic Accounts of the Strange and Unexplained
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University of Tennessee Press Civil War In Appalachia: Collected Essays
Book SynopsisUnlike many collections of original essays, this one is consistently fresh, coherent, and excellent. It reflects the combined scholarly excitement of ... the cultural history of the Civil War and the social history of Appalachia. As the editors point out in their introduction, this collection revises two false cliches - uniform Unionism in a region filled with cultural savages.
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University of Tennessee Press Valleys of the Shadow: The Memoir of Confederate Captain Reuben G. Clark
Book SynopsisValleys of the Shadow is the previously unpublished account of Captain Reuben Clark's first-hand experiences as a Confederate officer, a prisoner of war, and a post war civilian living in a conquered state.Captain Clark was a twenty-seven-year-old Knoxville businessman when the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861. Like many southern gentlemen, Clark was opposed to secession but could not desert his family and friends. Enlisting as a first lieutenant in the Confederacy's Third Tennessee Infantry Regiment, he spent his first night as a soldier on the bloody battlefield of Manasses. Clark's recollections of Manasses and the battles and skirmishes that followed pinpoint his regiment's activities in previously undocumented areas while providing valuable analyses of battles from a participant's point of view and discussing the irony many soldiers felt when battle pitted them against men they had known before the war in business, politics, and society.Captured after the battle of Morristown in the fall of 1864, Clark was jailed in Knoxville, then under Federal control. His account of the eight months he spent as a prisoner - his harsh treatment, a near-fatal illness, the false accusations of traitorous activities - offer a detailed description of the physical and legal battles of a Confederate prisoner of war fighting to obtain his freedom. Clark's post war experiences relate his struggles as a former Rebel living in a conquered state, reflecting the deeply divided loyalties of East Tennessee that continued for years after the war's end. This first book in the Voices of the Civil War series shares the story of a man who remained sensible of his kinship with those he was forced to call his enemies. Written a quarter-century after the war began, Clark's memories vividly bring to life the tragedy that was the Civil War.Willene B. Clark, a granddaughter of Captain Clark, is a professor of art history at Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont.
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University of Tennessee Press Lee's Last Casualty: The Life and Letters of Sgt. Robert W. Parker, Second Virginia Cavalry
Book SynopsisThe letters assembled in this extraordinarily rich collection were written by Robert W. Parker, an enlisted Confederate cavalryman who is thought to have been the last man killed in action in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. He is representative of the Confederate Everyman: a modest farmer in the antebellum years, his patriotic fervour spurred him at the beginning of the war to enlist in the Confederate Army, in which he served until his death during the last charge at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.Parker fought in most of the major campaigns in Virginia, including the 1862 Valley Campaign, the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, the 1863 Maryland Campaign, and the 1864 Overland Campaign. In letters to his wife Rebecca back home in Bedford County, Virginia, Parker described his life as an enlisted soldier in the Second Regiment Virginia Cavalry. His letters reveal how local communities worked together to provide the necessary stuff of war to soldiers, from food and clothing to moral support. They also show the importance of correspondence and religion in sustaining Confederate morale and nationalism.Catherine Wright provides a valuable introduction that illuminates not only these particular letters but also the many roles of correspondence during the Civil War. She points out how women-in this case, Parker's wife and his mother-made sure that men in the ranks understood that more than politics or manly honour was at stake in fighting the Yankees. Parker believed that the war was a supreme test in which God would look deep into the souls of Northerners and Southerners. His private beliefs informed his public views on how Southerners should act as citizens of a Confederate nation. People of all classes, Parker reasoned, had to give themselves to country and to God if Southern armies were to succeed on the battlefield. Parker's steadfastness was surely due in part to the words of his family, who instilled in him “just cause” to continue fighting.Anyone with an interest in how a typical soldier experienced the Civil War will find these letters both absorbing and enlightening.Trade Review“These poignant letters provide readers with a rich portrait of Parker, a thoughtful, caring young Virginian concerned about his family and farm, but also torn by his sense of loyalty to the Confederacy. Anyone reading just a few of Parker's letters will see the undeniable tie between the homefront and battlefront, the tie between a soldier's duty and his family.” —Lesley J. Gordon, co-editor, Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas
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