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What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History

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What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History
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â€œAn extremely good writer, [Ayers] is well worth reading . . . on the South and Southern history.â€â€•Stephen Sears, Boston Globe
The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportionsâ€•a system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at a federal Union, deep poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced developmentâ€•have fed the imaginations of some of our most accomplished historians.

Foremost in their ranks today is Edward L. Ayers, author of the award-winning and ongoing study of the Civil War in the heart of America, the Valley of the Shadow Project. In wide-ranging essays on the Civil War, the New South, and the twentieth-century South, Ayers turns over the rich soil of Southern life to explore the sources of the nation's and his own history. The title essay, original here, distills his vast research and offers a fresh perspective on the nation's central historical event.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2006-08-17
UnitCount 1
UPCs 000393328538
EANs 0000393328538

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