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The Civil War - A Concise History (Hardcover)
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The Civil War - A Concise History (Hardcover)
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One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on
Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination,
and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's
social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The Civil War: A
Concise History offers a masterful and eminently readable overview
of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic effects. Masur begins
by examining the complex origins of the war, focusing on the
pulsating tensions over states rights and slavery. The book then
proceeds to cover, year by year, the major political, social, and
military events, highlighting two important themes: how the war
shifted from a limited conflict to restore the Union to an all-out
war that would fundamentally transform Southern society, and the
process by which the war ultimately became a battle to abolish
slavery. Masur explains how the war turned what had been a loose
collection of fiercely independent states into a nation, remaking
its political, cultural, and social institutions. But he also
focuses on the soldiers themselves, both Union and Confederate,
whose stories constitute nothing less than America's Iliad. In the
final chapter Masur considers the aftermath of the South's
surrender at Appomattox and the clash over the policies of
reconstruction that continued to divide President and Congress,
conservatives and radicals, Southerners and Northerners for years
to come. In 1873, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley wrote that the war
had "wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that
the influence cannot be measured short of two or three
generations." From the vantage of the war's sesquicentennial, this
concise history of the entire Civil War era offers an invaluable
introduction to the dramatic events whose effects are still felt
today.
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