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- Title
- Fateful lightning : a new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction / Allen C. Guelzo.
- Author
- Guelzo, Allen C.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E468 .G85 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 576 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- A comprehensive look at the Civil War and how it shaped American history and culture; includes coverage of major figures and the war's effect on politics, religion, gender, race, diplomacy, and technology.
- Alternative Title
- New history of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "First edition ... was originally published as The crisis of the American Republic : a history of the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, St. Martin's Press, 1994"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A Nation Announcing Itself -- The Game of Balances -- Year of Meteors -- Sullen Hymns of Defeat -- Elusive Victories : East and West, 1862-1863 -- The Soldier's Tale -- The Manufacture of War -- Year That Trembled : East and West, 1863 -- World Turned Upside Down -- Stalemate and Triumph -- A Dim Shore Ahead -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9780199843282 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0199843287 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011041918
- OCLC
- 757133879
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library