Debate on the American Civil War Era

Informationen zum Autor Hugh Tulloch is Senior Lecturer in U.S. History at the University of Bristol Klappentext This study is the first to critically survey the changing and highly controversial historical literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interpretations up to the present.. The book analyses both historians attitudes and assumptions and suggests that each writer's perspective was partly determined by the dictates of time and place.. The author engages with all aspects of the Civil War era; social, cultural and economic as well as its political dimensions.. Aimed at sixth form colleges and university students. Zusammenfassung This study critically surveys the changing and highly contoversial literature surrounding the American Civil War era! from contemporary interp retations up to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. Chronology3. Slavery4. Abolitionism5. The Causes of the Civil War6. Why the North Won the Civil War7. Reconstruction8. Notes9. Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Tulloch
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.1999
• EAN: 9780719049385
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-4938-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Issues in Historiography; Issues in Historiography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous