Dettaglio del documento
- Remove from the list
- Add to the list
-
The permalink has been copied, you can use it immediately.
Just press Ctrl+v keys to put it where you prefer.
Why the Civil War came
Abstract
In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four horrific years and claim a staggering number of lives. Since that fateful day, the debate over the causes of the American Civil War has never ceased.
[...]
What events were instrumental in bringing it about? How did individuals and institutions function? What did Northerners and Southerners believe in the decades of strife preceding the war? What steps did they take to avoid war? Indeed, was the great armed conflict avoidable at all? Why the Civil War Came brin
- Login
- Details
- Unimarc
| eBook | ||
| Monografia | ||
| Description | *Why the Civil War came / edited by Gabor S. Boritt ; essays by David W. Blight [and others] New York : Oxford University Press, 1997, ©1996 1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) |
|
| Note | "Gettysburg Civil War Institute books"--Page ii "First published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 1996"--Title page verso Formato pdf/epub Accesso riservato secondo le condizioni contrattuali https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=409647 |
|
| ISBN | 9780199761746 | |
| 0199761744 | ||
| 9780195113761 | ||
| 9780195079418 | ||
| 0195113764 | ||
| 0195079418 | ||
| Coauthor |
|
|
Note e bibliografia |
||
|
||
| Publication year | 1997 - 1996 | |
| Contents note | "And the war came"? Abraham Lincoln and the question of individual responsibility / Gabor S. Boritt -- "Little women" who helped make this great war / Glenna Matthews -- They knew what time it was : African-Americans / David W. Blight -- The crisis of American democracy : the political system and the coming of the Civil War / William E. Gienapp -- The divided south, democracy's limitations, and the causes of the peculiarly North American Civil War / William W. Freehling -- "Freedom and law must die ere they sever" : the North / Mark Wahlgren Summers -- Fort Sumter : at last the war / Charles Royster |