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Zusatztext A House Divided offers students of the Civil War era a sweeping interpretation of the defining crisis of America's past that is readable and engaging from the first page to the last.Don H. Doyle! University of South Carolina! author of The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War (2014).Jonathan Wells' A House Divided expertly introduces readers to one of the most complex eras in American history. Wells's engaging! comprehensive! and balanced text! peopled with a broad range of actors! guides us through the changes and the continuities of the Civil War. He explains the causes! nature! and outcomes of the conflict with remarkable cogency! guiding readers through historians' debates! and rooting his story in the words and actions of the era's most important voices.Aaron Sheehan-Dean! Fred C. Frey Professor of Southern Studies! Louisiana State UniversityJonathan Wells' textbook synthesis of the Civil War era succeeds in the difficult task of incorporating new research with traditional themes. As a consequence! students get a readable! state-of-the-art survey of the Civil War era in its full complexity.Frank Towers! University of Calgary! author of Confederate Cities (2015) Informationen zum Autor Wells, Jonathan Klappentext This new edition of A House Divided provides a synthetic overview of one of the most complex eras in American history, giving students a solid grounding in the broad and varied scholarship on the American Civil War and introducing key historiographical debates in an accessible way. Zusammenfassung This new edition of A House Divided provides a synthetic overview of one of the most complex eras in American history, giving students a solid grounding in the broad and varied scholarship on the American Civil War and introducing key historiographical debates in an accessible way. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: War: The Red Animal Chapter One: Slavery and the Long-Term Roots of the Civil War Chapter Two: The Sectional Crisis, 1830-1850 Chapter Three: The 1850s, Secession, and the Start of War Chapter Four: The War Begins Chapter Five: Organizing and Mobilizing War Chapter Six: In the Grip of War Chapter Seven: Turning Points Chapter Eight: War on the Homefront Chapter Nine: The Union Grinds toward Victory Chapter Ten: Union Victory and African American Freedom Chapter Eleven: Reconstruction Begins Chapter Twelve: Collapse of Reconstruction Chapter Thirteen: America in the Late Ninteenth-Century ...
