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In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863

Door Edward L. Ayers

Categorie
Verenigde Staten & Canada
Boeknummer
#374398-XA48
Titel
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863
Auteur
Ayers, Edward L.
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York, NY/London : W. W. Norton & Company
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
0393057860
ISBN13
9780393057867
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, map on endpapers, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Our standard Civil War histories tell a reassuring story of the triumph, in an inevitable conflict, of the dynamic, free-labor North over the traditional, slave-based South, vindicating the freedom principles built into the nation's foundations. But at the time, on the borderlands of Pennsylvania and Virginia, no one expected war, and no one knew how it would turn out. The one certainty was that any war between the states would be fought in their fields and streets. Edward L. Ayers gives us a different Civil War, built on an intimate scale. He charts the descent into war in the Great Valley spanning Pennsylvania and Virginia. Connected by strong ties of every kind, including the tendrils of slavery, the people of this borderland sought alternatives to secession and war. When none remained,... (Lees verder) they took up war with startling intensity. As this book relays with a vivid immediacy, it came to their doorsteps in hunger, disease, and measureless death. Ayers's Civil War emerges from the lives of everyday people as well as those who helped shape history—John Brown and Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, Jackson, and Lee. His story ends with the valley ravaged, Lincoln's support fragmenting, and Confederate forces massing for a battle at Gettysburg.
Pagina's
467
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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