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  • The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

    par Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan ...
    A "well-reasoned and timely" ( Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states' rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Albert Sidney Johnston

    Soldier of Three Republics

    par Charles P. Roland ...
    A biography of the man whom Jefferson Davis could have considered one of his greatest generals during the American Civil War.A revised edition of the only full-scale biography of the Confederacy's top-ranking field general during the opening campaigns of the Civil War. Albert Sidney Johnston was selected as one of the best one hundred books ever written on the Civil War by Civil War Times ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Fighting for the Confederacy

    The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander

    Modifié par Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Collections series Civil War America
    Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, Fighting for the Confederacy is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature on the Civil War. Alexander was involved in nearly all of the great battles of the East, from First Manassas through Appomattox, and his duties brought him into frequent contact with most of the high command of the Army of Northern Virginia, including Robert ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The American War

    A History of the Civil War Era

    par Gary W Gallagher, Joan Waugh ...
    Full DescriptionIn The American War: A History of the Civil War Era, renowned historians Gary W. Gallagher and Joan Waugh provide a fresh examination of the Civil War, the great defining moment in U.S. history, as well as its aftermath and enduring memory, in a masterful work that prize-winning historian William C. Davis calls "easily the best one-volume assessment of the Civil War to date." By ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

  • With the USO in the Pacific During World War II

    The Memoir and Diary of Shirley Rose Gray, June–August 1945

    par Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Shirley Rose Gray’s memoir and diary chronicle her World War II experiences with a USO show in the Pacific Theater during the summer of 1945. Part of comedic film actor Eddie Bracken’s troupe of entertainers, the twenty-two-year-old native of Los Angeles performed on bitterly contested islands such as Guam, Peleliu, Tinian, and Saipan, as well as aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga and ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

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  • The Enduring Civil War

    Reflections on the Great American Crisis

    par Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Collections series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War, both academic and general, in conversation with testimony from those in the Union and the Confederacy ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • From Dakota to Dixie

    George Buswell's Civil War

    par George W Buswell ...
    Collections series A Nation Divided
    The remarkable account of a Union soldier whose service took him from Indian Country to the heart of the ConfederacyIn the summer of 1862, young Minnesotan George W. Buswell enlisted in the Union army, but his marching orders did not take him to the South to fight the Confederacy, as he had hoped, but to the US-Dakota War. Until the end of 1863, Buswell served with the 7th Minnesota Infantry, ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Richmond Campaign of 1862

    The Peninsula and the Seven Days

    Modifié par Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Collections series Military Campaigns of the Civil War
    The Richmond campaign of April–July 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War. Key political, diplomatic, social, and military issues were at stake as Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan faced off on the peninsula between the York and James Rivers. The climactic clash came on June 26–July 1 in what became known as the Seven Days ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Mexican-American War Experiences of Twelve Civil War Generals

    par Sean Chick, Dr. Christian B. Keller, Dr. Ethan S. Rafuse, Dr. Thomas W. Cutrer, Dr. Stephen D. Engle, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Jennifer M. Murray, Craig L. Symonds, Timothy B. Smith, T. Michael Parrish, Brian Steel Wills, Alexander Mendoza, Cecily N. Zander ...
    Collections series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Long overshadowed by the American Civil War, the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) has received significantly less attention from historians partly because of its questionable origin and controversial outcome. Rather than treat the conflict with a form of historical amnesia, the contributors to this volume argue that the Mexican-American War was a formative experience for the more than three ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten

    How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War

    par Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Collections series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war — why it was fought, what was won, what was lost — not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, Gary W. Gallagher guides readers through the stories told in recent film and art, showing how these stories have both reflected ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Lee and His Army in Confederate History

    par Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Collections series Civil War America
    Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? Or was he an ineffective leader and poor tactician whose reputation was drastically inflated by early biographers and Lost Cause apologists? These divergent characterizations represent the poles between which ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Union War

    par Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War—by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment.In a searing analysis of the Civil War ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

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