عنوان

The war that forged a nation :

شابک

0199375771

شابک

9780199375776

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

The war that forged a nation :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

why the Civil War still matters /

نام نخستين پديدآور

James McPherson

نام خاص و کميت اثر

x, 219 pages ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Why the Civil War Still Matters -- Mexico, California, and the Coming of the Civil War -- A Just War? -- Death and Destruction in the Civil War -- American Navies and British Neutrality During the Civil War -- The Rewards of Risk-Taking : Two Civil War Admirals -- How Did Freedom Come? -- Lincoln, Slavery, and Freedom -- A. Lincoln, Commander in Chief -- The Commander Who Would Not Fight : McClellan and Lincoln -- Lincoln's Legacy for Our Time -- War and Peace in the Post-Civil War South

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"In The Long Shadow of War, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why the Civil War retains such a hold on our national psyche and identity. Though the drama and tragedy of the subject, from the war's scope and size--an estimated death toll of 750,000, far more than all the rest of the country's wars combined--to the nearly mythical individuals involved--Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson--help explain why the Civil War remains so popular among historians, it does not entirely explain why the war still matters to us today. Through twelve essays, McPherson dissects this question, exploring the war's impact across many dimensions of American life. The essays consider variously the war's causes and consequences; the morality and cost of the war in comparative context; the naval war; slavery and its abolition; and Abraham Lincoln as emancipator, political leader, and commander in chief, among many other topics. Ultimately, McPherson illuminates the impossibility of understanding the issues of our own time unless we first understand their roots in the era of the Civil War: slavery and its abolition; the conflict between the North and South; the struggle between state sovereignty and the federal government; the role of government in social change-these issues, McPherson shows, are as salient and controversial today as they were in the 1860s. Thoughtful, provocative, and authoritative, The Long Shadow of War looks anew at the reasons America's civil war has remained a subject of intense interest for the past century and a half, and affirms the enduring relevance of the conflict for America today"--

موضوع مستند نشده

National characteristics, American-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Social change-- United States-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

War and society-- United States-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Influence

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Psychological aspects

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Social aspects

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

0

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

McPherson, James M.

تاريخ عمليات

20150324160235.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y