Ordeal by fire : the Civil War and Reconstruction

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Ordeal by fire : the Civil War and Reconstruction

James M. McPherson

McGraw-Hill, c1992

2nd ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 633-684) and index

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内容説明

An account of the period of reconstruction in America after the Civil War which aims to integrate political, social, economic, military and foreign policy issues in a narrative that proceeds chronologically.

目次

  • Part 1 The coming of war: American modernization, 1800-1860
  • the antebellum south
  • the ideological conflict over slavery
  • Texas, Mexico, and the compromise of 1850
  • filibusters, fugitives, and nativists
  • Kansas and the rise of the Republican party
  • the deepening crisis, 1857-1859
  • the critical year, 1859-1860
  • secession and the coming of war. Part 2 The Civil War: a brother's war - the upper South
  • mobilizing for war
  • the balance sheet of war
  • the war at home and abroad
  • the springtime of Northern hope
  • Jackson and Lee strike back
  • slavery and the war - Northern politics, 1861-1862
  • the first turning point - Antietam and emancipation
  • the winter of northern discontent
  • the second turning point - Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga
  • war issues and politics in 1863
  • behind the lines
  • wartime reconstruction and the freedpeople
  • military stalemate, 1864
  • the third turning point - the election of 1864
  • the end of the Confederacy. Part 3 Reconstruction: the problems of peace
  • the origins of "racial" reconstruction
  • reconstruction and the crisis of impeachment
  • the first grant administration
  • the southern question, 1869-1872
  • social and economic reconstruction
  • the retreat from reconstruction
  • the new South.

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