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General Gordon Granger(2022) CONNER, ROBERT CThis is the first full-length biography of the Civil War general who saved the Union army from catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, and went on to play major roles in the Chattanooga and Mobile campaigns. Immediately after the war, as commandVezava: Mehka26,39 €
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Scars on the Land(2022) SILKENAT, DAVID (SENIOR LECTURER IN AMERICAN HISTORY, SENIOR LECTURER IN AMERICAN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape.Vezava: Trda54,18 €
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Worse Place Than Hell(2021) MATTESON, JOHN (JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE)Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the American Civil War and their enduring legacy.Vezava: Trda45,01 €
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Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood(2021) BYRD, JAMES P. (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY, VANDERBILT DIVINITY SCHOOL)Vezava: Trda59,70 €
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Sweet Taste of Liberty(2019) MCDANIEL, W. CALEB (MARY GIBBS JONES PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES, MARY GIBBS JONES PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES, RICE UNIVERSITY)The extraordinary life of Henrietta Wood--a formerly enslaved woman sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage, and won.Vezava: Trda34,73 €
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Reconstruction(2020) GUELZO, ALLEN C. (HENRY R. LUCE PROFESSOR OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA AND DIRECTOR OF CIVIL WAR ERA STUDIES, HENRY R. LUCE PROFESSOR OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA AND DIRECTOR OF CIVIL WAR ERA STUDIES, GETTYSBURG COLLEGE)Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African AmeVezava: Mehka13,88 €
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Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery(2021) CROFTS, DANIEL W.In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the ""Great Emancipator"". Crofts argues that Lincoln no intention of being the ""Great Emancipator"" when he took ofVezava: Mehka69,74 €
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Gathering to Save a Nation(2020) ENGLE, STEPHEN D.In this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War, Stephen Engle examines how these politicians were pivotal in securing victory. In a time of limited federal authority, governors were an essential part of the machine that maintained tVezava: Mehka46,70 €
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More Civil War(2020) DILBECK, D. H.During the Civil War, Americans confronted profound moral problems about how to fight in the conflict. In this innovative book, D.H. Dilbeck reveals how the Union sought to wage a just war, showing that northerners fought according to a distinct ""moral vVezava: Mehka63,98 €
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Stonewall's Prussian Mapmaker(2020)Prussian-born cartographer Oscar Hinrichs was a key member of Stonewall Jackson's staff, and worked alongside such prominent Confederate leaders as Joe Johnston and Jubal Early. Hinrichs's detailed wartime journals, published here for the first time, shedVezava: Mehka41,93 €
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Arguing until Doomsday(2020) WOODS, MICHAEL E.Weaving together biography and political history, Michael Woods restores Jefferson Davis and Stephen Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers to the centre of the Civil War era. Operating on personal, partisan, and national levels, Woods traces theVezava: Trda78,14 €
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Standard-Bearers of Equality(2019) POLGAR, PAUL J.Examines the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the New York Manumission Society, and their African American allies during the post-Revolutionary era, Paul PVezava: Trda44,80 €
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Decisions of the Atlanta Campaign(2019) PETERSON, LAWRENCE K.Intended for a general readership, Decisions of the Atlanta Campaign introduces readers to critical decisions made by both Union and Confederate commanders who faced harrowing situations and attempted to achieve strategic and tactical victories.Vezava: Mehka37,16 €
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British Blockade Runners in the American Civil War(2019) MCKENNA, JOSEPHFocusing on British involvement in the American Civil War, this history names the overseas bankers and manufacturers who, in critical need of cotton and other Confederate exports, financed and equipped the fast little ships that ran the Union blockade.Vezava: Mehka99,99 €
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No Vote for Women(2019) CAHILL, BERNADETTEFrom 1865, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led campaigns for equal rights for all but were ultimately defeated by a Congress and reformers intent on applying suffrage established with constitutional amendments and legislation to men only. ThisVezava: Mehka74,55 €