An edition of Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (1981)

Ordeal by fire

the Civil War and Reconstruction

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An edition of Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (1981)

Ordeal by fire

the Civil War and Reconstruction

3rd ed.

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The Civil War is the central event in the American historical consciousness. While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865 preserved this creation from destruction and determined, in large measure, what sort of nation it would be. The war settled two fundamental issues for the United States: whether it was to be a nation with a sovereign national government, or a dissoluble confederation of sovereign states; and whether this nation, born of a declaration that all men are created with an equal right to liberty, was to continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world. The Constitution of 1789 had left these issues unresolved. By 1861 there was no way around them; one way or another, a solution had to be found. - Preface.

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McGraw-Hill
Language
English
Pages
661

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Subjects

Causes, History, Reconstruction, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), United States, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Histoire, Sezessionskrieg, Geschichte 1865-1877, War

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United States

Times

1865-1898, Civil War, 1861-1865

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1992, McGraw-Hill
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1992, McGraw-Hill
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Ordeal by fire: the Civil War and Reconstruction
1981, Knopf
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Edition Notes

Previous ed. 1992.

Includes double-sided map-poster: 1.-The United States and Confederate States, 1861, & 2.-Naval War, 1861-1865, with 4 insets at enlarged scale.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Boston, London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.7
Library of Congress
E468, E468 .M23 2001

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Pagination
xxiv,661p., and various pagings :
Number of pages
661

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL21995184M
ISBN 10
0072317361
LCCN
00025043
OCLC/WorldCat
43562052
Library Thing
72715
Goodreads
189656

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OL13363771W

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