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The American Civil War / Adam I.P. Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American history in depthPublication details: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.Description: xxii, 275 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780333790533 (hbk.)
  • 0333790537 (hbk.)
  • 9780333790540 (pbk.)
  • 0333790545 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E468 .S63 2007
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Contents:
List of Maps -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations p. xvii 1. 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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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 -- 5. Citizen Soldiers -- Life in Civil War Armies -- Attitudes and Motivations -- 6. 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 -- 7. 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 8. 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-259) and index.

List of Maps -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations p. xvii 1. 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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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 -- 5. Citizen Soldiers -- Life in Civil War Armies -- Attitudes and Motivations -- 6. 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 -- 7. 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 8. 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.