Format:
xiii, 277 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Edition:
Louisiana Paperback Edition
ISBN:
9780807173480
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9780807177273
Series Statement:
Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War
Content:
"The 73 essays in "The Enduring Civil War" grew out of an invitation to Gary Gallagher by a well-known Civil War history magazine to write a series of brief essays on a variety of topics related to the history of the war and era. The subjects Gallagher chose to write about over the following years highlight the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. They place contemporary understanding of the Civil War, both academic and general, in conversation with testimony from people in the United States and the Confederacy who experienced and described it. Put another way, they investigate how mid-nineteenth-century perceptions align with, or deviate from, some current ideas regarding the origins, conduct, and aftermath of the war.
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The tension between history and memory forms a theme throughout the essays, underscoring how later perceptions about the war often took precedence over historical reality in the minds of many Americans. The essays cluster in several categories. Many address notable books and authors, featuring essential published primary accounts, both Union and Confederate, military and civilian, famous, and lesser known. Others assess historians who, though their names have receded with time, produced works that remain pertinent in terms of analysis or information. Several essays revisit conventional interpretations of events and personalities. They challenge, among other things, commonly held notions about Gettysburg and Vicksburg as decisive turning points, U. S. Grant as a general who profligately wasted Union manpower, the Gettysburg Address as a watershed that turned the war from a fight for Union into one for Union and emancipation, and Robert E.
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Lee as an old-fashioned general ill-suited to waging a modern mid-nineteenth-century war. Other essays examine recent scholarly trends, alerting non-academic readers to the evolving nature of the field and featuring crucial questions. Has a fascination with celebrated armies and generals obscured the importance of guerrilla operations? Did the conflict end in 1865 or continue through Reconstruction and beyond? How did the West figure in Union and Confederate planning and allocation of resources? Did emancipation join preserving the Union as an equivalent or even more important war aim for the mass of loyal soldiers and civilians in the United States? Should clashes between Indians and the U.S.
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Linking America's two most important wars -- Antebellum -- History and historical memory -- Our West -- One war or two?: the United States versus Confederates and Indians, 1861-1865 -- Unconventional warfare -- The dark turn-- late nineteenth-century style -- Reckoning with Confederate desertion -- The Grand Review -- Revisiting the Gettysburg Address -- Environmental shocks -- Tracking U.S. Grant's reputation -- The supreme partnership -- R.E. Lee as a general -- Robert E. Lee's multiple loyalties -- A one-sided friendship -- Attrition in Lee's high command -- Little Mac -- How Lee's "Old War-Horse" gained a new following -- Stonewall Jackson and the Confederate people -- Stonewall and Old Jube in the valley -- Sheridan makes his name in the valley -- Poor George Gordon Meade -- Reynolds and Sedgwick -- Toward Santa Fe and beyond: Confederates in New Mexico -- Gettysburg in perspective -- Let the chips fall where they will -- Two ways to approach one war -- The Union in memory --
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The Union army and emancipation -- Union veterans claimed they fought for a higher cause -- The war was won in the East -- The desperate gamble -- The war's overlooked turning points -- Did the fall of Vicksburg really matter? -- What if? -- Did the war end in 1865? -- Occupation and the Union military effort -- Lessons from David M. Potter -- Two gifted writers -- "The plain folk's pioneer" reframed history -- Recoving Allan Nevins -- Acknowledging Ella Lonn -- Shelby Foote, popular historian -- Gettysburg's great historian -- British writers view the Confederacy -- Biographers and generals -- A tactical history masterpiece -- Off the tracks -- The "other" Confederate army -- Deciding what to read -- Seeing the war through soldiers' letters -- Father Neptune's war -- Abner Doubleday's revenge -- Congressional oversight with a punch -- Voices from the Army of the Potomac -- Harvard men at war -- John B. Jones's war -- Right-hand men -- Confederate women view the war --
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Warime chronicle -- A window into Confederate memory -- An indispensable Confederate and his diary -- Every sketch tells a story -- Go to Gettysburg! -- Battlefields as teaching tools -- Fluid landscapes -- Reevaluating Virginia's "shared history" -- The power of photographs -- Glory: reflections on a Civil War classic -- Hollywood's twenty-first-century Lincoln
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF Gallagher, Gary W. The enduring Civil War Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780807174067
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB Gallagher, Gary W. The enduring Civil War Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780807174074
Language:
English
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