The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture: Reflections on the Civil War Era
Autor Paul D. Escotten Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 dec 2009 – vârsta până la 17 ani
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780275994099
ISBN-10: 0275994090
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Reflections on the Civil War Era
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0275994090
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Reflections on the Civil War Era
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Photographs, maps, and graphs enrich the text and illustrate changes in military strength, the importance of the Border South, and the loss of Confederate territory over time
Notă biografică
Paul D. Escott is Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, and the author of several books on the South and the Civil War, including Praeger's Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy.
Cuprins
Series ForewordChapter One: A Revolution, with ContradictionsChapter Two: A Revolution in the RevolutionChapter Three: Dark and Dangerous TimesChapter Four: Losing Battles, Losing HopeChapter Five: Holding On: A Test of WillsChapter Six: Frustration and CollapseEpilogueNotesBibliographic EssayIndex
Recenzii
Recommended. Most levels/libraries.
Several fine titles have appeared in recent years in the Reflections on the Civil War Era series edited by John David Smith, and to them Paul D. Escott's The Confederacy makes a fine addition. . An excellent and thoughtful work in brief compass, The Confederacy will be valuable to student and scholar alike.
With The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture, Paul D. Escott has written a clear, concise synthesis of the life cycle of the Confederacy based on an impressive array of primary sources and a review of current secondary literature
Several fine titles have appeared in recent years in the Reflections on the Civil War Era series edited by John David Smith, and to them Paul D. Escott's The Confederacy makes a fine addition. . An excellent and thoughtful work in brief compass, The Confederacy will be valuable to student and scholar alike.
With The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture, Paul D. Escott has written a clear, concise synthesis of the life cycle of the Confederacy based on an impressive array of primary sources and a review of current secondary literature