American Civil War

Name: American Civil War
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ISBN: 9780333790533

ISBN-10: 0333790537

ISBN-13: 9780333790533

Edition: 2007

Authors: Adam I. P. Smith, Adam Smith

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Adam Smith's study of the American Civil War blends analysis and narrative to explore the contemporary public debate in the North and the South, recreating the ideas of nationality, community and morality which affected the outcome of the conflict.

Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of Maps


Preface


List of Abbreviations



Slavery and the American Republic


Nationalism, Democracy and Republicanism


The Slavery Issue


The Power of Slaveowners


The Crisis over the Extension of Slavery


Compromise and its Consequences



Political Crisis and the Resort to War


The Kansas Nebraska Act


Republicanism and the Slave Power


The Rise of the Secessionists


Lincoln's Election and the Secession of the Deep South


The North's War for the Union


The Sumter Crisis


First Bull Run



The Failure of Limited War, 1861-1862


The Military Balance Sheet, 1861


Strategy and Tactics


The Union Army Advances: December 1861-May 1862


Confederate Victories in the East: May to September 1862


Emancipation



Emancipation and Hard War, 1862-1864


Confederate High Tide: December 1862-July 1863


Confederate Reversals: Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Chattanooga


"Hard War" in 1864


Grant Takes Command



Citizen Soldiers


Life in Civil War Armies


Attitudes and Motivations



The Ordeal of the Confederate Republic


Birth of a Nation-State


Confederate Nationalism and the Southern People


The Strains of War and the Limits of Loyalty


Slavery and the Confederate Cause



The Last Best Hope of Earth: The War for the Union


Organizing Northern Society for War


Partisanship, Democracy and the Limits of Dissent


Reconstruction and Union Politics


The 1864 Election



The Magic Word, "Freedom"


The Road to Appomattox


Why the South Lost the War


The Nation "Redeemed"


Unfinished Business


Notes


Guide to Further Reading


Chronology of Key Events


Index