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  • - Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War
    af Joan Waugh
    677,95 kr.

    Comprised of essays from twelve leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitman's poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment of disabled and destitute northern veterans, Ulysses S. Grant's imposing tomb, and Hollywood's long relationship with the Lost Cause narrative. The contributors are William Blair, Stephen Cushman, Drew Gilpin Faust, Gary W. Gallagher, J. Matthew Gallman, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Harold Holzer, James Marten, Stephanie McCurry, James M. McPherson, Carol Reardon, and Joan Waugh.

  • af Margaret E. Wagner & Gary W. Gallagher
    412,95 kr.

  • af Gary W. Gallagher
    397,95 kr.

    Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? Or was he an ineffective leader and poor tactician whose reputation was drastically inflated by early biographers and Lost Cause apologists? These divergent characterizations represent the poles between which scholarly and popular opinion on Lee has swung over time. Now, in eight essays, Gary Gallagher offers his own refined thinking on Lee, exploring the relationship between Lee's operations and Confederate morale, the quality of his generalship, and the question of how best to handle his legacy in light of the many distortions that grew out of Lost Cause historiography.Using a host of contemporary sources, Gallagher demonstrates the remarkable faith that soldiers and citizens maintained in Lee's leadership even after his army's fortunes had begun to erode. Gallagher also engages aspects of the Lee myth with an eye toward how admirers have insisted that their hero's faults as a general represented exaggerations of his personal virtues. Finally, Gallagher considers whether it is useful--or desirable--to separate legitimate Lost Cause arguments from the transparently false ones relating to slavery and secession.

  • - Reflections on the Great American Crisis
    af Gary W. Gallagher
    298,95 - 442,95 kr.

    In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute.

  • - The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era
    af Gary W. Gallagher, T. Michael Parrish, Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr, mfl.
    627,95 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.

  • af Gary W. Gallagher
    422,95 kr.

    In this collection, Civil War historian Gary Gallagher examines Robert E. Lee, his principal subordinates, the treatment they have received in the literature on Confederate military history, and the continuing influence of Lost Cause arguments in the late-twentieth-century United States.

  • - Lee's Gallant General
    af Gary W. Gallagher
    372,95 kr.

    Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General

  • - How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War
    af Gary W. Gallagher
    342,95 kr.

    Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War

  • af Gary W. Gallagher
    285,95 kr.

    Today, many believe the Civil War was fought over slavery. This view satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gallagher's searing revisionist history shows, it is an anachronistic judgment. Northern citizen-soldiers fought the war to preserve the Union. Emancipation was secondary to the war's primary goal of safeguarding the republic.

  • af Gary W. Gallagher
    331,95 kr.

    Gallagher argues that we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon but rather how it lasted so long. He examines the Confederate experience through the actions and words of the people who lived it to show how the home front responded to the war, endured its hardships, and assembled armies that fought with great spirit and determination.

  • - The War in the East 1861 - May 1863
    af Gary W. Gallagher
    1.357,95 kr.

    This volume focuses on events in the Virginia theatre during the first two years of the American Civil War, highlighting Union and Confederate strengths and weaknesses, leadership and strategy, and the ways in which the conflict influenced politics, diplomacy, and debates about emancipation.

  • - Paths to a New National Loyalty
    af Gary W. Gallagher
    457,95 - 1.345,95 kr.

    Explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early. Looking at levels of allegiance to their native state, the slaveholding South, to the US, and the Confederacy, Gallagher shows how these men represent responses to the mid-nineteenth century crisis.

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