Intimations of Modernity

Louis A Pérez

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• Louis A. Perez Jr.'s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued wi... Lees meer

Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten

Gary W Gallagher

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, w... Lees meer

The World the Civil War Made

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi Riv... Lees meer

The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era

Mark E Neely

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguing that social historians ... Lees meer

Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten

Gary W Gallagher

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, w... Lees meer

Rites of Retaliation

Lorien Foote

• Hardcover | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the conflict ... Lees meer

The Civil War as a Theological Crisis

Mark a Noll

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans bot... Lees meer

Sex and the Civil War

Judith Giesberg

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite , playing ... Lees meer

Count the Dead

Stephen Berry

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergirdi... Lees meer

With a Sword in One Hand & Jomini in the Other

Carol Reardon

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned f... Lees meer

Rites of Retaliation

Lorien Foote

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• Blending military and cultural history, Lorien Foote's rich and insightful book sheds light on how Americans fought over what it meant to be civilized... Lees meer

Count the Dead

Stephen Berry

• Hardcover | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergirdi... Lees meer

Gender and the Sectional Conflict

Nina Silber

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and feminin... Lees meer

The Second American Revolution

Gregory P Downs

• Hardcover | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• Argues that we can see the US Civil War anew by understanding it as a revolution. More than a fight to preserve the Union and end slavery, the conflic... Lees meer

Gender and the Sectional Conflict

Nina Silber

• Hardcover | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and feminin... Lees meer

Civil War as a Theological Crisis

Mark a Noll

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans bot... Lees meer

Tales from the Haunted South

Tiya Miles

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban mano... Lees meer

With a Sword in One Hand & Jomini in the Other

Carol Reardon

• Hardcover | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned f... Lees meer

Lincoln's Proclamation

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• The Emancipation Proclamation, widely remembered as the heroic act that ended slavery, in fact freed slaves only in states in the rebellious South. Tr... Lees meer

Making Freedom

R J M Blackett

• Paperback | Engels | Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
• The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended... Lees meer