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A Short History of the American Civil War (Paperback)
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A Short History of the American Civil War (Paperback)
Series: Short Histories
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Loot Price R486
Discovery Miles 4 860
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The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the
collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the
bloodiest conflicts in modern history, claiming the lives of at
least 600,000 soldiers and an unknown number of civilians and
slaves. The Civil War was also one of the world's first truly
industrial conflicts, involving railroads, the telegraph,
steamships and mass-manufactured weaponry. The eventual victory of
the Union over the Confederacy rang the death-knell for American
slavery, and set the USA on the path to becoming a truly world
power. Paul Christopher Anderson shows how and why the conflict
remains the nation's defining moment, arguing that it was above all
a struggle for power and political supremacy but was also a
struggle for the idea of America. Melding social, cultural and
military history, the author explores iconic battles like Shiloh,
Chickamauga, Antietam and Gettysburg, as well as the bitterly
contesting forces underlying them and the myth-making that came to
define them in aftermath. He shows that while both sides began the
war in order to preserve - the integrity of the American state in
the case of the Union, the integrity of a culture, a value system,
and as slave society in the case of the Confederacy - it allowed
the American South to define a regional identity that has survived
into modern times.
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