The American Civil War: Explorations and Reconsiderations

by Grant, Susan-Mary; Reid, Brian H.

• ISBN13: 9780582318380
• ISBN10: 0582318386
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

B> With Brian Reid and Susan-Mary Grant from England, this book offers a non-US examination of the Civil War and brings together key writings on the most critical episodes of American history. This outsiders view eschews an overly reverential approach and combines multiple perspectives with the book arranged around four main themes: the political front, the military front, the home front and the ideological front. . Examines key protagonists, critical turning points, society, economy, slavery, civil liberties and nationalism. Those interested in the Civil War. Also available in Hardcover 0-582-31838-6.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
Preface	xii
Susan-Mary Grant
Brian Holden Reid
Introduction	xv
James M. McPherson
Part 1. The Political Front	1	(118)
The State of the Union, 1776--1860	3	(36)
Donald Ratcliffe
Southern secession in 1860-1	39	(29)
Bruce Collins
Abraham Lincoln, the presidency, and the mobilization of union sentiment	68	(30)
Richard Carwardine
Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy	98	(21)
Martin Crawford
Part 2. The Military Front	119	(96)
The first of the modern wars?	121	(21)
Joseph G. Dawson III
Command and leadership in the Civil War, 1861-5	142	(27)
Brian Holden Reid
The experience of the Civil War: men at arms	169	(22)
Andrew R. Haughton
Fighting for freedom: African-American soldiers in the Civil War	191	(24)
Susan-Mary Grant
Part 3. The Race Front	215	(72)
The fight for black suffrage in the War of the Rebellion	217	(22)
Robert Cook
`What did we go to war for?' Confederate emancipation and its meaning	239	(26)
Bruce Levine
Slavery and emancipation: the African-American experience during the Civil War	265	(22)
David Turley
Part 4. The Ideological Front	287	(71)
Capitalism and the Civil War	289	(16)
John Ashworth
Individual rights and constitutional powers: the impact of the Civil War	305	(28)
Pat Lucie
From union to nation? The Civil War and the development of American nationalism	333	(25)
Susan-Mary Grant
Index	358