McPherson wears with equal ease the hats of biographer, economist, sociologist and military historian. This book covers one of the most turbulent periods of the USAs history, from the Mexican War in 1848 to the end of the Civil War in 1865. McPherson has fresh approaches to the war's background, the four years of struggle and the aftermath * Washington Post Book World * Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil. He has written what will surely become the standard one-volume history of the great conflict which forged America as a united nation * Independent *Ībsolutely brilliant. historical writing of the highest order * The New York Times *Ī distinguished contribution to American history. Omitting nothing important, whether military, political or economic, he yet manages to make everything he touches drive the narrative forward. Above all, everything is in a living relationship with everything else. The definitive study, meticulous in its scholarship and compulsive in its readability * Financial Times * Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780140125184 Number of pages: 944 Weight: 639 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 39 mm MEDIA REVIEWS the best one-volume treatment of its subject I have ever come across. It is a masterful work' - New York Review of Books that effectively integrates in one volume social, political and military events from the immediate aftermath of the Mexican War through the sectional strife of the 1850s, the secession movement, and the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Incorporating a wide range of weaponry, from long range rifled muskets and devastating.
'A remarkably wide-ranging synthesis of the history of the 1850s and the Civil War. For a distinguished book of the year upon the history of the United States, Three thousand dollars (3,000). Battle Cry of Freedom brings brutal real-time first and third-person multiplayer combat set in the 19th Century America, presenting players with the opportunity to re-fight the American Civil War as either the Union or the Confederacy. It will shock you for what it tells you about politics in America today.' - Richard Ford It will open your eyes about race history in America. James McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom (1988) and over a dozen other books on the American Civil War, will be here to answer questions starting at 1.
The whole panorama of the Civil War is captured in these pages, from the military campaign, which is described with vividness, immediacy, a grasp of strategy and logistics, and a keen awareness of the military leaders and the common soldiers involved, to its political and social aspects. With a broad historical sweep, it traces the heightening sectional conflict of the 1850s: the growing estrangement of the South and its impassioned defence of slavery the formation of the Republican Party in the North, with its increasing opposition to slavery and the struggle over territorial expansion, with its accompanying social tensions and economic expansion. Digital page images are linked to the text file.This book covers one of the most turbulent periods of the USA's history, from the Mexican War in 1848 to the end of the Civil War in 1865.
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We Are Going To Be Wiped Off the Earth page 774 Long Remember: The Summer of '63 page 626 Three Rivers in Winter, 1862-1863 page 568
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We Must Free the Slaves or Be Ourselves Subdued page 490 Blockade and Beachhead: The Salt-Water War, 1861-1862 page 369 Farewell to the Ninety Days' War page 339 9.Facing Both Ways: The Upper South's Dilemma.
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