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April 1861-April 1865. Four years during which a still poorly united people of just over 30 million souls, including 4 million black slaves, clashed continuously, divided into two unequal camps, each invoking his own definition of freedom. A war mobilizing 3 million combatants on a territory larger than Europe, seeing more than 10,000 separate military engagements, some of which have become the cornerstones of American memory, such as Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam or Gettysburg... In many respects, it is the first major contemporary conflict, drawing on all the resources of a nascent industrial modernity, involving all the living forces of the young American society, which in a few decades has passed from a conglomeration of emancipated colonies to a democratic nation undermined by its internal contradictions. With 750,000, perhaps 850,000 dead, it was by far the deadliest war in the history of the United States, having provoked 160 years of debate and controversy, like a distant but still very present echo. To understand this founding cataclysm, Jensen Cox finally offers the long-awaited great narrative on the American Civil War, nourished by primary sources and based on an impressive international bibliography.

Abril de 1861 a abril de 1865. Quatro anos durante os quais um povo ainda pouco unido de pouco mais de 30 milhões de almas, incluindo 4 milhões de escravos negros, se chocou continuamente, dividido em dois campos desiguais, cada um invocando sua própria definição de liberdade. Uma guerra que mobilizou 3 milhões de combatentes em um território maior que a Europa, presenciando mais de 10.000 confrontos militares separados, alguns dos quais se tornaram os pilares da memória americana, como Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam ou Gettysburg... Em muitos aspectos, é o primeiro grande conflito contemporâneo, valendo-se de todos os recursos de uma nascente modernidade industrial, envolvendo todas as forças vivas da jovem sociedade americana, que em poucas décadas passou de um conglomerado de colônias emancipadas a uma nação democrática minada por suas contradições. Com 750.000, talvez 850.000 mortos, foi de longe a guerra mais mortífera da história dos Estados Unidos, tendo provocado 160 anos de debate e controvérsia, como um eco distante mas ainda muito presente. Para entender esse cataclismo fundador, Jensen Cox finalmente oferece a tão esperada grande narrativa sobre a Guerra Civil Americana, alimentada por fontes primárias e baseada em uma impressionante bibliografia internacional.

Jensen Cox converses with a mestizo who was alive in Montaigne's time precisely throughout the years. He was an interpreter as well as a businessman, the son of an Indian and a conquistador. To get to know his new domains, he spent time responding to the lengthy questionnaire issued by the Spanish crown. He improvises himself as a historian and a journalist in turn, clearly enjoying the process. He discusses the history of his nation, its customs and beliefs, as well as his concerns for the present, even if he does not subscribe to the then-common conviction that the end of the world is imminent.This outstanding source provides first-hand testimony on the development of Mexico's first colonial civilization in modern times as well as the emergence of Iberian globalization. What standards should you set when everything around you is changing and the past is fading into obscurity? That is the question Jensen Cox poses to this Renaissance guy in a true discussion. How can we adjust to a globalizing world?