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The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Series: Very Short Introductions
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Loot Price R249
Discovery Miles 2 490
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More than 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 U.S.
Civil War: A Very Short Introduction 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." 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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