Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, Paperback - Caroline E. Janney

Reducere. As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and wh...

Reducere. The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed wes...

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Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these L...

Reducere. Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Missi...

What if you found out that the child you love belongs to someone else? A breath-taking and heart-rending debut novel about the bond of family and t...

Reducere. While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to tre...

DescriptionAs many as 20, 000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various soc...

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government - Adam Przeworski

Reducere. To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by...

Awards🏆Winner (2002) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: David W. BlightNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America'...

Reducere. In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relat...

Reducere. In the years following the American Civil War, many participants-generals, politicians, journalists, and soldiers-authored first-hand accounts of t...

From the drama of blockade-running to graphic descriptions of battles on the state's islands and sounds, this book portrays the explosive events th...

Reducere. During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, ...

During the Civil War, Americans confronted profound moral problems about how to fight in the conflict. In this innovative book, D.H. Dilbeck reveal...

Reducere. Provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments ...

Reducere. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As ...

Reducere. Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the mos...

Reducere. Sons of Privilege traces the wartime experiences of a unique Confederate cavalry unit drawn together from South Carolina's most prestigious familie...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): John (University of Wolverhampton, UK) RobertsNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): John (University of Wolverhampton, UK) RobertsNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Presenting a critique of moral theory from Kant onwards, the author, one of the greatest philosophers of his generation, reorients ethical theory t...

Reducere. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

Reducere. Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750, 000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical pro...

Reducere. In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to...

Reducere. DescriptionJUNE 4, 1863... As the sun began to set below the horizon across the May River estuary, smoke clouds still billowed from the burning hom...

This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a na...

Reducere. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing fo...

Reducere. Deserve s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review " Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brillian...

Reducere. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the confli...

Reducere. Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically ...

A new edition of the important work of philosophy from the late Williams. With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear and commentary on the text by A.W. M...

Sandel locates modern liberalism in the tradition of Kant, and focuses on its most influential recent expression in the work of John Rawls. In the ...

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Vividly recasting Cuba's politics in the 1930s as transnational, Ariel Mae Lambe has produced an unprecendented reimagining of Cuban activism durin...

Reducere. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north t...

Reducere. Bushwhackers recounts hundreds of incidents that brought the Civil War home to the mountains of the Old North State. Some are violent, some humorou...

Reducere. No winners, no losers, and no end the Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is no ordinary computer game. Created by British mathematician John ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tiya MilesIn this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours, " frequently promoted and ...

Reducere. In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War-era African Amer...

Reducere. In December 1885, under the watchful eye of Mark Twain, the publishing firm of Charles L. Webster and Company released the first volume of the Pers...

Reducere. As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fo...

Reducere. Bull Run, Gettysburg, Appomattox. For Americans, these battlegrounds, all located in the eastern United States, will forever be associated with the...

From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. Li...

DescriptionThe United States has become ever more deeply entrenched in powerful, rival, partisan camps, and its citizens more sharply separated alo...

DescriptionPhilosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism--either a radical separation of mind and bod...