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  • The Calculus of Violence

    How Americans Fought the Civil War

    by Aaron Sheehan-Dean ...
    Winner of the Jefferson Davis AwardWinner of the Johns Family Book AwardWinner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award“A work of deep intellectual seriousness, sweeping and yet also delicately measured, this book promises to resolve longstanding debates about the nature of the Civil War.”—Gregory P. Downs, author of After AppomattoxShiloh, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg—tens of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fighting with the Past

    How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War

    by Aaron Sheehan-Dean ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, nineteenth-century Americans were especially conversant with narratives of the English Civil Wars of the 1600s. Northerners and Southerners alike drew from histories of the English past to make sense of ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #250)

    Edited by Aaron Dean-Sheehan ...
    Series Book 4 - Library of America: The Civil War Collection
    Featuring hundreds of first-hand writings from the American Civil War, this final installment of the highly acclaimed four-volume series traces events from March 1864 to June 1865After 150 years the Civil War still holds a central place in American history and self-understanding. It is our greatest national drama, at once heroic, tragic, and epic—our Iliad, but also our Bible, a story of sin and ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Why Confederates Fought

    Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia

    by Aaron Sheehan-Dean ...
    Series series Civil War America
    In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers — even those who were nonslaveholders — adapted their vision of the war’s purpose to remain committed Confederates ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 3, Affairs of the People

    Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
    This volume analyzes the cultural and intellectual impact of the war, considering how it reshaped Americans' spiritual, cultural, and intellectual habits. The Civil War engendered an existential crisis more profound even than the changes of the previous decades. Its duration, scale, and intensity drove Americans to question how they understood themselves as people. The chapters in the third volume ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #212)

    Edited by Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears, Sheehan-Dean Aaron ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of America: The Civil War Collection
    **The first volume in a four-volume series on the American Civil War—featuring first-hand writings from Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, and moreThis “mesmerizing and deeply troubling” glimpse into the Civil War era “will forever deepen the way you see this central chapter in our history . . . a masterpiece” (Newsweek).**After 150 years the Civil War is still our greatest national ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 1, Military Affairs

    Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
    This volume narrates the major battles and campaigns of the conflict, conveying the full military experience during the Civil War. The military encounters between Union and Confederate soldiers and between both armies and irregular combatants and true non-combatants structured the four years of war. These encounters were not solely defined by violence, but military encounters gave the war its ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The War That Made America

    Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher

    Edited by Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Carmichael, Aaron Sheehan-Dean ...
    Series series Civil War America
    This collection of original essays reveals the richness and dynamism of contemporary scholarship on the Civil War era. Inspired by the lines of inquiry that animated the writings of the influential historian Gary W. Gallagher, this volume includes nine essays by leading scholars in the field who explore a broad range of themes and participants in the nation’s greatest conflict, from Indigenous ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Calculus of Violence

    How Americans Fought the Civil War

    by Aaron Sheehan-Dean ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 9 min

    At least three-quarters of a million lives were lost during the American Civil War. Given its seemingly indiscriminate mass destruction, this conflict is often thought of as the first "total war." But Aaron Sheehan-Dean argues for another interpretation.The Calculus of Violence demonstrates that this notoriously bloody war could have been much worse. Military forces on both sides sought to contain ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 2, Affairs of the State

    Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
    This volume explores the political and social dimensions of the Civil War in both the North and South. Millions of Americans lived outside the major campaign zones so they experienced secondary exposure to military events through newspaper reporting and letters home from soldiers. Governors and Congressmen assumed a major role in steering the personnel decisions, strategic planning, and methods of ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Struggle for a vast future

    The American Civil War

    Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean ...
    In this book, thirteen eminent historians discuss the origins of and legacy of a landmark conflict in the American Civil War.Tearing apart a nation founded on ideals of liberty and union, the American Civil War saw some of the most bitter and bloody fighting that humankind has ever witnessed. The war changed America forever, shaping its future and determining its place in history.Each chapter ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

  • Rebels and Regimes

    The Nature of Violent Resistance in the Nineteenth Century

    by Joseph Beilein, Dr. Ian W Campbell, Joshua Samuel Gedacht, Jacob Ivey, Vitor Izecksohn, Marcus Nevius, Gavin Rand, Samuel Watson, Zhenman Ye ...
    Rebels and Regimes presents a global view of the nature of violent resistance throughout the nineteenth century. The volume’s breadth and scope reveal commonalities and differences among regimes and insurgents in their different contexts, offering a view that the participants themselves never had. The collection is composed of ten essays, each focused on a specific conflict or period of colonial ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD