The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction

by Louis P Masur and Louis P. Masur

Book Overview

More than 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 U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic effects. Masur begins by examining the complex origins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197513662
• ISBN13: 9780197513668
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.4" x 6.8"