Themes of the American Civil War: The War Between the States, Revised Second Edition

Themes of the American Civil War offers a timely and useful guide to this vast topic for a new generation of students. The volume provides a broad-ranging assessment of the causes, complexities, and consequences of America’s most destructive conflict to date. The essays, written by top scholars in the field, and reworked for this new edition, explore how, and in what ways, differing interpretations of the war have arisen, and explains clearly why the American Civil War remains a subject of enduring interest. It includes chapters covering four broad areas, including The Political Front, The Military Front, The Race Front, and The Ideological Front. Additions to the second edition include a new introduction – added to the current introduction by James McPherson – a chapter on gender, as well as information on the remembrance of the war (historical memory). The addition of several maps, a timeline, and an appendix listing further reading, battlefield statistics, and battle/regiment/general names focuses the book squarely at undergraduates in both the US and abroad. One And Inseparable. The State Of The Union, 1776-1860 / Donald Ratcliffe -- And The War Came-- . Southern Secession In 1860-1861 / Bruce Collins -- The First Of The Modern Wars? / Joseph G. Dawson Iii -- The Experience Of The Civil War : Men At Arms / Andrew Haughton -- Command And Leadership In The Civil War, 1861-1865 / Brian Holden Reid -- Abraham Lincoln, The Presidency, And The Mobilization Of Union Sentiment / Richard Carwardine -- Jefferson Davis And The Confederacy / Martin Crawford -- Capitalism And The Civil War / John Ashworth -- Emancipation : Race And Gender In The Civil War. Fighting For Freedom : African-american Soldiers In The Civil War / Susan-mary Grant -- The Fight For Black Suffrage In The War Of The Rebellion / Robert Cook -- What Did We Go To War For? Confederate Emancipation And Its Meaning / Bruce Levine -- Slavery And Emancipation : The African-american Experience During The Civil War / David Turley -- To Bind Up The Nation's Wounds : Women And The American Civil War / Susan-mary Grant -- Legacy. From Union To Nation? The Civil War And The Development Of American Nationalism / Susan-mary Grant -- Individual Rights And Constitutional Powers : The Impact Of The Civil War / Pat Lucie. Edited By Susan-mary Grant And Brian Holden Reid. Originally Published As: The American Civil War : Explorations And Reconsiderations. New York : Longman, 2000. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.