This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth Noe, following the lead of environmental his...

Reducere. With a new introduction by Thomas L. Connelly Thomas Jonathan Jackson was the most renowned and skillful commander of Confederate troops in the Civ...

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbin...

Reducere. Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, s...

Reducere. "... a major contribution to our knowledge of the place of the Civil War in the history of warfare.... I have long hoped for a sound history of Civ...

DescriptionThe American Civil War is one of the most popular periods to wargame, and rightly so - it is a fascinating period of history. Painting M...

Reducere. In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that both sides "read the s...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

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...

"A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women."--David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass "Readers expecting hoop-skirted l...

Reducere. In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were ce...

Henry Fleming dreams of the thrill of battle and performing heroic deeds in the American Civil War. But his illusions are shattered when he comes f...

DescriptionPerhaps more than all the campaigns of the Union armies, the Union naval blockade--covering all major Southern ports along 3, 500 miles ...

DescriptionThe American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodie...

Reducere. The Cambridge History of the American Civil War provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the American Civil War. With contributions from...

Reducere. Shell shock, battle fatigue, posttraumatic stress disorder, lack of moral courage: different terms for the same mental condition, formal names that...

The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the American Civil War, placing race at the center of t...

Reducere. Swashbuckling stories of the Union naval blockade of the Southern states and the blockade runners who smuggled goods to the Confederacy have long b...

At the outset of the American Civil War, the wealthy inventor and expert shot Hiram Berdan initiated the setting-up of sharpshooting units in the U...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychologi...

Reducere. This volume explores the political and social dimensions of the Civil War in both the North and South. Chapters explore the military leadership of ...

Focuses on works that expand the parameters of US foreign relations. This work also focuses on such areas as identity formation and projection, bor...

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twen...

An engineer's personal take on what it's like to be a civil engineer in the 21st century - the life, the practice, the profession. This work covers...

Reducere. Viktor Frankl and Leo Tolstoy on Suffering, Death, and the Search Meaning: An Existential Journey, is a scholarly work that would interest scholars...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Charles KingNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 215 x 139 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Reducere. Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo's ground-breaking studies have found that there are more than 84 million shy people in America today, including such "secret...

Provides incomparable insights into women's lives during America's Civil War era. Marilyn Mayer Culpepper's respect for these nineteenth-century wo...

Reducere. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people--th...