Langbeschreibung
Themes of the American Civil War offers a timely and useful guide to this vast topic for a new generation of students. The volume provides a broad-ranging assessment of the causes, complexities, and consequences of America's most destructive conflict to date. The essays, written by top scholars in the field, and reworked for this new edition, explore how, and in what ways, differing interpretations of the war have arisen, and explains clearly why the American Civil War remains a subject of enduring interest. It includes chapters covering four broad areas, including The Political Front, The Military Front, The Race Front, and The Ideological Front.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Maps, Acknowledgments, Introduction to the Second Edition, Introduction to the First Edition, Part I One and Inseparable, Part II And the War Came . . ., Part III Emancipation: Race and Gender in the Civil War, Part IV Legacy, Timeline, Guide to Further Reading, Notes on Contributors, Index