Battlefield and Beyond (eBook)

Essays on the American Civil War

Clayton E. Jewett (Herausgeber)

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2012
352 Seiten
LSU Press (Verlag)
978-0-8071-4357-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne M. Hudson, and Daniel E. Sutherland delve into the master-slave relationship, the role of blacks in the army, and the nature of southern violence. Herman Hattaway, Paul D. Escott, and Judith F. Gentry offer innovative perspectives on the influential leadership of President Jefferson Davis, Lieutenant-General Stephen D. Lee, and General Edmund Kirby Smith. Other contributors consider politicians and the public: Michael J. Connolly and Clayton E. Jewett investigate how despotism contributed to Confederate defeat; David E. Kyvig and Alan M. Kraut examine the war's impact on the Constitution and racial relationships with Jews; and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Kenneth Nivison, and Emory M. Thomas discuss the critical function of memory in our understanding of Lincoln's assassination.The essays in The Battlefield and Beyond consider the fundamental issue of the Confederacy's failure and military defeat but also expose our nation's continuing struggles with race, individual rights, terrorism, and the economy. Collectively, this distinguished group of historians reveals that 150 years after the nation's most defining conflict its consequences still resonate.

Autor

lt;p>Clayton E. Jewett is lecturer in history at Baylor University and the author or editor of Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building, Slavery in the South: A State-by-State History, and Rise and Fall of the Confederacy: The Memoir of Texas Senator Williamson S. Oldham, CSA.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
• Co-Autor: Orville Vernon Burton, Ken Nivison, Daniel E. Sutherland, Emory M. Thomas, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Rosemarie Zagarri, Jane Turner Censer, Michael Connolly, Paul D. Escott, Judith Gentry, Herman Hattaway, Leonne Hudson, Alan M. Kraut, David Kyvig
• Verlagsort: Baton Rouge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-8071-4357-X / 080714357X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-4357-5 / 9780807143575