Zbirka: Ameriška državljanska vojna
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Rediscovering Fort Sanders(2020) FAULKNER, CHARLES H.,FAULKNER, TERESAA unique book that combines a narrative history of pre-Civil War Knoxville, the war years and continuing construction of Fort Sanders, the failed attempts to preserve the postwar fort, and the events which led to its almost total destruction.Vezava: Trda22,94 € -
Custer(2021) BEHNCKE, TED,BLOOMFIELD, GARYA new whole-life biography of Custer that deals with his personal history as well as his military career.Vezava: Trda35,05 € -
Saddest Words(2021) GORRA, MICHAEL (SMITH COLLEGE)Michael Gorra, one of America’s most preeminent literary critics, asks how we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Rebels and Patriots(2019) LECK, MICHAEL,MERSEY, DANIELA set of wargaming rules for the battles for North America – from the French and Indian War to the American Civil War.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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: Mehka26,62 € -
Only the Clothes on Her Back(2022) EDWARDS, LAURA F. (CLASS OF 1921 BICENTENNIAL PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LAW AND LIBERTY, CLASS OF 1921 BICENTENNIAL PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LAW AND LIBERTY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.Vezava: Trda66,51 € -
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: Trda60,81 € -
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: Trda36,44 € -
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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: Mehka67,63 € -
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: Mehka26,77 € -
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: Mehka96,72 € -
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: Mehka62,49 € -
I Held Lincoln(2018) QUEST, RICHARD E.The story of Lt. Benjamin Loring, who escaped from a Confederate prison camp to regain his freedom, and after returning home, witnessed the assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theater.Vezava: Trda23,51 € -
America'S Good Terrorist(2020) POLAND, JR.A biography of John Brown, examining his failed raid on Harpers Ferry, and the part his actions played in causing the Civil War. Now in paperback.Vezava: Trda45,75 €
