A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of FreedomNew Press, The, 2011 M05 10 - 322 páginas “Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States did for the study of American history in general.” —Library Journal Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated with little-known anecdotes and firsthand testimony, this path-breaking narrative moves beyond presidents and generals to tell a new and powerful story about America’s most destructive conflict. A People’s History of the Civil War is a “readable social history” that “sheds fascinating light” on this crucial period. In so doing, it recovers the long-overlooked perspectives and forgotten voices of one of the defining chapters of American history (Publishers Weekly). “Meticulously researched and persuasively argued.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
Contenido
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The Brunt Is Thrown upon the Working Classes | 1853 |
The Women Rising | |
We Poor Soldiers | |
Come In Out of the Draft | |
My God Are We Free? | |
Indians Here Have No Fight with the Whites | |
Was the War in Vain? | |
Afterword | |
NOTES | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
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A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom David Williams Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |
A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom David Williams Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
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