America Aflame - How the Civil War Created a Nation

Zusatztext [Goldfield] presents a superb! stylishly written historical synthesis ...an ambitious! engrossing interpretation with new things to say about a much-studied conflagration Informationen zum Autor David Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of many works and textbooks on Southern history, including Still Fighting the Civil War , Southern Histories , Black, White and Southern, and Promised Land . "Fascinating... meticulously researched, passionately argued." -Salon.com Zusammenfassung In this spellbinding history! David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom . Where other scholars have seen the conflict as a triumph of freedom! Goldfield paints it as America's greatest failure: a breakdown of society caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the world of politics. The price of that failure was horrific! but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not: It made the United States one nation and eliminated the divisive force of slavery. The victorious North moved ahead! a land of innovation and industry. Religion was supplanted by a gospel of economic and scientific progress! and the South was left behind. The "fiery trial" of war transformed our country-a conflagration captured in vivid detail in America Aflame .

About the author

David Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of many works and textbooks on Southern history, including Still Fighting the Civil War, Southern Histories, Black, White and Southern, and Promised Land.

Product details

• Authors: Goldfield, David Goldfield, Goldfield David
• Publisher: Macmillan USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2012
• EAN: 9781608193905
• ISBN: 978-1-60819-390-5
• No. of pages: 640
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / North America, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)