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Extraordinary Circumstances
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 29.99The first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Seven Days Battles were fought southeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond in the summer of 1862. Lee and his fellow officers, including "Stonewall" Jackson, James Longstreet, A. P. Hill, and D. H. Hill, pushed George B. McClellan?s Army of the Potomac... more...
Civil War and Reconstruction
Wiley 2004; US$ 22.95A rare first-hand glimpse of the Civil War through the words of those who were there This exciting new addition to the American Heritage American Voices series offers young readers insights into the culture and ideas of the Civil War era through a variety of primary sources. The book includes major historical documents, such as the Gettysburg Address,... more...
Civil War Pharmacy
Haworth Press 2004; US$ 59.95Here is the first comprehensive examination of pharmaceutical practice and drug provision during the Civil War. In this painstakingly researched yet highly readable book, Michael A. Flannery, co-author of the critically acclaimed America?s Botanico-Medical Movements: Vox Populi, examines the drugs that were used, who provided and prepared them, and... more...
Civil War America
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 85.00The American Civil War was truly a "people's war", where neighbour fought neighbour and brother fought brother. This is a revealing compilation of essays documenting the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath on Americans - young and old, black and white, northern and southern. more...
Intimate Strategies of the Civil War
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 18.99The wives of Civil war commanders had widely divergent roles in their marriages before, during, and after the war - some wives changed their roles as their husbands gained prominence. This study brings the field of Women's Studies to Civil War history to show that their were many cultural battles simultaneously occurring on the home front. more...
Drawn with the Sword
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 17.99This series of essays reflects on topics such as the origins of the Civil War, the war and American society, why the North won the war, Lincoln's enduring image, and the question of historians and their audiences. more...
Facing America
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 64.99Exploring how the face and body of America were imagined both physically and metaphorically during the Civil War, this book shows how visual iconography affected changes in postbellum gendered and racialised identifications of the nation. more...
The Scratch of a Pen
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 14.99More American territory changed hands in 1763 than in any international agreement before or since. Part of the "Pivotal Moments in American History" series, this volume surveys the transformation of the continent following the Peace of Paris, which ensured British dominance in North America but set the colonies on the road to revolution. more...
Trade, Transportation, and Warfare
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 35.00Trade, Transportation, and Warfare examines the contributions American Indians have made to these areas, with an emphasis on geography, economics, and social studies. The main question that the book answers is how Indians of the Americas were connected with others inside and outside of their culture group. Fascinating coverage of technology focuses... more...
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 19.99Northern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, historian Elizabeth Varon provides a gripping, richly researched account of the woman who... more...









