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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873

Alan Taylor
4.36/5 (154 ratings)
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A Pulitzer Prize winner’s masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the continent.

In a beautifully crafted narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which the United States, Mexico, and Canada all transformed themselves into nations. The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military dimension and the drama of emancipation the focus. The American West and its Native peoples feature prominently, with fascinating detail on California and the southwest borderlands. The instability in the United States shakes the continent: it invites a French invasion of Mexico that fuels long-standing hostilities between Conservative and Liberal forces; in Canada it raises the urgency of a continental confederation to manage the differences of Francophones and Anglophones. The vivid character portraits throughout are indelible: from Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the great Liberal leader Benito Juárez to key Black abolitionists such as Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
560 pages
Publication:
2024
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1324035285
ISBN13:
9781324035282
kindle Asin:
B0CJGTP7BW

American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873

Alan Taylor
4.36/5 (154 ratings)
Read Download
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the continent.

In a beautifully crafted narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which the United States, Mexico, and Canada all transformed themselves into nations. The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military dimension and the drama of emancipation the focus. The American West and its Native peoples feature prominently, with fascinating detail on California and the southwest borderlands. The instability in the United States shakes the continent: it invites a French invasion of Mexico that fuels long-standing hostilities between Conservative and Liberal forces; in Canada it raises the urgency of a continental confederation to manage the differences of Francophones and Anglophones. The vivid character portraits throughout are indelible: from Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the great Liberal leader Benito Juárez to key Black abolitionists such as Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
560 pages
Publication:
2024
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1324035285
ISBN13:
9781324035282
kindle Asin:
B0CJGTP7BW

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