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What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History
Edward L. Ayers
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Description for What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History
Paperback. "An extremely good writer, [Ayers] is well worth reading .. on the South and Southern history."-Stephen Sears, Boston Globe Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; WZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 204.
The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportions—a system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at a federal Union, deep poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced development—have fed the imaginations of some of our most accomplished historians.
Foremost in their ranks today is Edward L. Ayers, author of the award-winning and ongoing study of the Civil War in the heart of America, the Valley of the Shadow Project. In wide-ranging essays on the Civil War, the New South, and ... Read more
The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportions—a system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at a federal Union, deep poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced development—have fed the imaginations of some of our most accomplished historians.
Foremost in their ranks today is Edward L. Ayers, author of the award-winning and ongoing study of the Civil War in the heart of America, the Valley of the Shadow Project. In wide-ranging essays on the Civil War, the New South, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780393328530
SKU
V9780393328530
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About Edward L. Ayers
Edward L. Ayers, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, has won the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes for his innovative histories of Civil War America. He is president emeritus of the University of Richmond, where he is executive director of New American History.
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