America Aflame
How the Civil War Created a Nation
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 632 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom." Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second Great Awakening surged through America, political questions became matters of good and evil to be fought to the death. The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not.
Contents:
Crusades -- Empire -- Revolutions -- Railroaded -- Blood on the Plains -- Revival -- The boatman -- The tug comes -- Just causes -- Shiloh awakening -- Born in a day -- Blood and transcendence -- A new nation -- War is cruelty -- One nation, indivisible -- The age of reason -- Aspirations -- A golden moment -- The golden spike -- Political science -- Let it be -- Centennial.
Subjects:
National characteristics, American.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
National characteristics, American.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
ISBN:
9781596917026 (hbk.)
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War Civil Gol | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [591]-615) and index.