The Civil War: A Concise History

by Louis P. Masur

Book Overview

One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape.
Louis P. Masur's The Civil War: A Concise History offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic effects. Masur begins by examining the complex origins of the war, focusing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199740488
• ISBN13: 9780199740482
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.4"