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  • - Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction
    af Margaret M. Storey
    497,95 kr.

    Though slavery was widespread and antislavery sentiment rare in Alabama, there emerged a small loyalist population, mostly in the northern counties, that persisted in the face of overwhelming odds against their cause. Margaret Storey's welcome study uncovers and explores those Alabamians who maintained allegiance to the Union.

  • - The 16th Connecticut's Civil War
    af Lesley J. Gordon
    408,95 - 617,95 kr.

    Recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil War's most ill-fated Union military units, the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. The product of over a decade of research, Lesley J. Gordon's A Broken Regiment illuminates the unit's complex history amid the interplay of various, and often competing, voices.

  • - A Civil War Hero in History and Memory
    af Wallace Hettle
    497,95 kr.

    Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson have proved uneven at best and often contentious. Wallace Hettle offers an innovative and distinctive approach to interpreting Stonewall by examining the lives and agendas of those authors who shape our current understanding of General Jackson.

  • - Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas
     
    492,95 kr.

    In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience and The Confederate Nation, Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. This volume honours his contributions to the field with fresh interpretations of all aspects of Confederate life.

  • - Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction
    af Mitchell Snay
    311,95 kr.

    Provides a compelling comparison of seemingly disparate groups and illuminates the contours of nationalism during Reconstruction. By joining the Fenians with freedpeople and southern whites, Mitchell Snay seeks to assert their central relevance to the dynamics of nationalism during Reconstruction.

  • - Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865
    af Barton A. Myers
    311,95 kr.

    Until now, Civil War scholars considered Bright and the Union incursion that culminated in his gruesome death as only a historical footnote. In Executing Daniel Bright, Barton Myers uses these events as a window into the wider experience of local guerrilla conflict in North Carolina's Great Dismal Swamp region.

  • - West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
    af Jon Scott Logel
    557,95 kr.

    Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the centre of American commerce and culture. Although this important urban transformation is well documented, the critical role of select Union soldiers turned New York engineers has, until now, remained largely unexplored.

  • - Irish American, Civil War General, and Gilded Age Politician
    af Mark H. Dunkelman
    557,95 kr.

    Patrick Henry Jones's obituary vowed that "his memory shall not fade among men." Yet in little more than a century, history has largely forgotten Jones's considerable accomplishments in the Civil War and the Gilded Age that followed. In this masterful biography, Mark Dunkelman resurrects Jones's story and restores him to his rightful standing.

  • - Balancing Freedom and Security
    af Dennis K. Boman
    617,95 kr.

    Reveals the difficulties that President Abraham Lincoln, military officials, and state authorities faced in trying to curb traitorous activity while upholding the spirit of the United States Constitution. Dennis Boman explains that despite Lincoln's desire to disentangle himself from Missouri policy matters, he was never able to do so.

  • - The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South
    af Donald E. Reynolds
    557,95 kr.

    On July 8, 1860, fire destroyed the entire business section of Dallas, Texas. At about the same time, two other fires damaged towns near Dallas. In this book, Donald Reynolds offers a deft analysis of these events and illuminates the ways in which fictionalised conspiracy determined the course of southern secession immediately before the Civil War.

  • - Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861-1862
    af Silvana R. Siddali
    617,95 kr.

    Examines the public and political debates in the North during the US Civil War over southerners' private property rights and explains how these deliberations set in motion the first major reconsideration of the Constitution since the Bill of Rights.

  • - Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans
    af Rebecca Howard
    642,95 kr.

    Essays in this collection approach Civil War veterans from oblique angles, including theatre, political, and disability history, as well as borderlands and memory studies. Contributors examine the lives of Union and Confederate veterans, African American veterans, former prisoners of war, amputees, and ex-guerrilla fighters.

  • - Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas
     
    797,95 kr.

    In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience and The Confederate Nation, Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. This volume honours his contributions to the field with fresh interpretations of all aspects of Confederate life.

  • - The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era
    af Gary W. Gallagher, T. Michael Parrish, Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr, mfl.
    607,95 kr.

    A panoramic collection of essays written by both established and emerging scholars, American Discord examines critical aspects of the Civil War era, including rhetoric and nationalism, politics and violence, gender, race, and religion.

  • - Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War
    af Kenneth W. Noe
    822,95 kr.

    Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth Noe, following the lead of environmental historians, suggests instead that it was a war between the North and South and the weather.

  • - Women Soldiers in the American Civil War
    af DeAnne Blanton
    462,95 kr.

    Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as this study shows, that conventional picture does not tell the entire story.

  • - How Britain Imagined the American Civil War
    af Hugh Dubrulle
    587,95 kr.

    Explores how Britons envisioned the American Civil War and how these conceptions influenced their discussions about race, politics, society, military affairs, and nationalism. Contributing new research that expands upon previous scholarship, Dubrulle offers a methodical dissection of the ideological forces that shaped opinion.

  • af Richard B. McCaslin
    362,95 kr.

    While most historians agree that Robert E. Lee's loyalty to Virginia was the key factor in his decision to join the Confederate cause, Richard B. McCaslin further demonstrates that Lee's true call to action was the legacy of the American Revolution viewed through his reverence for George Washington.

  • - The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862
    af Richard B. McCaslin
    432,95 kr.

    Until relatively recently, a legacy of silence restricted historical writing on the Great Hanging. In the first systematic treatment of this important event, Richard McCaslin also sheds much light on the tensions produced in southern society by the Civil War, the nature of disaffection in the Confederacy, and the American vigilante tradition.

  • - The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat
    af John E. Clark Jr
    357,95 kr.

    By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. As John Clark explains, the skill with which Union and Confederate war leaders utilized the rail system was an essential ingredient for ultimate victory.

  • - Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist Nation
    af Michael Brem Bonner
    592,95 kr.

    Argues that the Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state - a society that required all sectors of the economy to work for the national interest, as defined by a partnership of industrial leaders and a dominant government.

  • - The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War
    af Andrew S. Bledsoe
    560,95 kr.

    Explores the role of the volunteer officer corps during the Civil War and the unique leadership challenges they faced when military necessity clashed with the antebellum democratic values of volunteer soldiers.

  • - Union Major Generals in the Civil War
    af Mark A. Snell
    532,95 kr.

    Offers eight case studies that illuminate the critical roles the Union corps commanders played in shaping the US Civil War's course and outcome. The contributors examine widespread assumptions about these men while considering the array of internal and external forces that shaped their efforts on and off the battlefield.

  • - The Story of the Confederate States Patent Office and Its Inventors
    af H. Jackson Knight
    532,95 kr.

    The formation of the Confederate States of America involved more than an attempt to create a new, sovereign nation - it inspired a flurry of creativity and entrepreneurialism in the South that matched Union ingenuity. This book brings to light the forgotten history of the Confederacy's industrious inventors and its active patent office.

  • - William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic
    af Robert J. Cook
    582,95 kr.

    The first biography of William Pitt Fessenden in over forty years, Civil War Senator reveals a significant but often sidelined historical figure and explains the central role played by party politics and partisanship in the coming of the Civil War, northern military victory, and the ultimate failure of postwar Reconstruction.

  • - How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature
    af Joe B. Fulton
    452,95 kr.

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer Mark Twain, served as second lieutenant in a Confederate militia, but only for two weeks, leading many to describe his loyalty to the Confederate cause as halfhearted at best. In The Reconstruction of Mark Twain, Joe B. Fulton challenges these long-held assumptions about Twain's advocacy of the Union cause, arguing that Clemens traveled a long and arduous path, moving from pro-slavery, secession, and the Confederacy to pro-union, and racially enlightened. A deft blend of biography, history, and literary studies, this book offers a bold new assessment of the work of one of America's most celebrated writers.

  • - The Judicial Odyssey of Texas Freedwoman Azeline Hearne
    af Dale Baum
    547,95 kr.

    For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. Azeline ultimately inherited one of the most profitable cotton plantations in Texas and became one of the wealthiest ex-slaves in the former Confederacy. In this volume, Dale Baum traces Azeline's remarkable story.

  • - The United States v. Jefferson Davis
    af Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez
    642,95 kr.

    In the aftermath of the Civil War, federal officials imprisoned and indicted Jefferson Davis for treason. Although the federal government pursued the charges, the case never went to trial. This book argues that while national politics played a role in the trial's direction, the actions of lesser-known individuals resulted in the failure to convict.

  • af Jeffrey Zvengrowski
    692,95 kr.

    In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America.

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