A House Divided
The Civil War and Nineteenth-Century America
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2016
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2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-95684-1 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-95684-1 (ISBN)
This new edition of A House Divided provides a synthetic overview of one of the most complex eras in American history, giving students a solid grounding in the broad and varied scholarship on the American Civil War and introducing key historiographical debates in an accessible way.
Consolidating one of the most complex and multi-faceted eras in American History, this new edition of Jonathan Wells’s A House Divided unifies the broad and varied scholarship on the American Civil War. Amassing a variety of research, this accessible and readable text introduces readers to both the war and the Reconstruction period, and how Americans lived during this time of great upheaval in the country's history. Designed for a variety of subjects and teaching styles, this text not only looks at the Civil War from a historical perspective, but also analyzes its ramifications on the United States and American identities through the present day. This second edition has been updated throughout, incorporating new scholarship from recent studies on the Civil War era, and includes additional photographs and maps (now incorporated throughout the text), updated bibliographies, and a supplementary companion website.
Consolidating one of the most complex and multi-faceted eras in American History, this new edition of Jonathan Wells’s A House Divided unifies the broad and varied scholarship on the American Civil War. Amassing a variety of research, this accessible and readable text introduces readers to both the war and the Reconstruction period, and how Americans lived during this time of great upheaval in the country's history. Designed for a variety of subjects and teaching styles, this text not only looks at the Civil War from a historical perspective, but also analyzes its ramifications on the United States and American identities through the present day. This second edition has been updated throughout, incorporating new scholarship from recent studies on the Civil War era, and includes additional photographs and maps (now incorporated throughout the text), updated bibliographies, and a supplementary companion website.
Wells, Jonathan
Introduction: War: The Red Animal
Chapter One: Slavery and the Long-Term Roots of the Civil War
Chapter Two: The Sectional Crisis, 1830-1850
Chapter Three: The 1850s, Secession, and the Start of War
Chapter Four: The War Begins
Chapter Five: Organizing and Mobilizing War
Chapter Six: In the Grip of War
Chapter Seven: Turning Points
Chapter Eight: War on the Homefront
Chapter Nine: The Union Grinds toward Victory
Chapter Ten: Union Victory and African American Freedom
Chapter Eleven: Reconstruction Begins
Chapter Twelve: Collapse of Reconstruction
Chapter Thirteen: America in the Late Ninteenth-Century
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.05.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 20 Line drawings, black and white; 50 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 839 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-95684-8 / 1138956848 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-95684-1 / 9781138956841 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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