People's History of the Civil War Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

Name: People's History of the Civil War Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
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ISBN: 9781595581259

ISBN-10: 1595581251

ISBN-13: 9781595581259

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Williams, Howard Zinn

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The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it. Bottom-up history at its very best, A People's History of the Civil War "does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of American history in general" (Library Journal). Widely praised upon its initial release, it was described as "meticulously researched and persuasively argued" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War though the eyes of ordinary peoplefoot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans,…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 9/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 6.19" wide x 9.20" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Series Preface



Acknowledgments


Introduction: "The People at War"



"All for the Benefit of the Wealthy"



"The Brunt Is Thrown upon the Working Classes"



"The Women Rising"



"We Poor Soldiers"



"Come In Out of the Draft"



"My God! Are We Free?"



"Indians Here Have No Fight with the Whites"



"Was the War in Vain?"


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index