The Debate on the American Civil War Era

by Hugh Tulloch

Book Overview

This study is the first to critically survey the changing and highly controversial historical literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interpretations up to the present. The book analyses both historians attitudes and assumptions and suggests that each writer's perspective was partly determined by the dictates of time and place. The author engages with all aspects of the Civil War era; social, cultural and economic as well...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719049385
• ISBN13: 9780719049385
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"