What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History

Name: What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History
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ISBN: 9780393328530

ISBN-10: 0393328538

ISBN-13: 9780393328530

Edition: 2006

Authors: Edward L. Ayers

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Our most prominent historian of the South takes on the most central question in American history. "An extremely good writer, [Ayers] is well worth readingon the South and Southern history."Stephen Sears, Boston Globe The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportionsa system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at a federal Union, deep poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced developmenthave fed the imaginations of some of our most accomplished historians. Foremost in their ranks today is Edward L. Ayers, author of the award-winning and ongoing study of the Civil War in the heart of…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.30" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Pieces of a Southern Autobiography


What We Talk about When We Talk about the South


A Digital Civil War


Where the North Is the South


Worrying about the Civil War


What Caused the Civil War?


Exporting Reconstruction


Telling the Story of the New South


In Memory of C. Vann Woodward


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index