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Author: Paul Christopher Anderson (Clemson University, USA)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.40cm
Weight: 0.380kg
ISBN: 9781780765983
ISBN 10: 1780765983
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 26 December 2019
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Concisely introducing political, economic, and social matters, the author reduces battle detail in favor of analysis and enhances thematic interpretation. In a very real sense Anderson brings the story into the new century, making it relevant to today ... Recommended for all libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels. * CHOICE * Displaying a splendid gift for compressing facts without altering truths, Paul Anderson has produced a short history of the American Civil War that is long on quality and understanding. Lively, succinct, and perceptive, it is filled with sound, balanced judgments that make rare sense of a sprawling, complex, and crucial era in American history. A marvelous introduction to the war. * Daniel E. Sutherland, University of Arkansas *
A Short History of the American Civil War will best serve nonspecialist readers and students in undergraduate survey courses stressing the ideas and societal values that shaped the American Civil War. * Michigan War Studies Review * Concisely introducing political, economic, and social matters, the author reduces battle detail in favor of analysis and enhances thematic interpretation. In a very real sense Anderson brings the story into the new century, making it relevant to today ... Recommended for all libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels. * CHOICE * Displaying a splendid gift for compressing facts without altering truths, Paul Anderson has produced a short history of the American Civil War that is long on quality and understanding. Lively, succinct, and perceptive, it is filled with sound, balanced judgments that make rare sense of a sprawling, complex, and crucial era in American history. A marvelous introduction to the war. * Daniel E. Sutherland, University of Arkansas *
Displaying a splendid gift for compressing facts without altering truths, Paul Anderson has produced a short history of the American Civil War that is long on quality and understanding. Lively, succinct, and perceptive, it is filled with sound, balanced judgments that make rare sense of a sprawling, complex, and crucial era in American history. A marvelous introduction to the war. * Daniel E. Sutherland, University of Arkansas *
Author Information
Paul Christopher Anderson is University Historian and Associate Professor of History at Clemson University, USA. He is the author of Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind (2002).
