| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
A Nation Announcing Itself -- The Game of Balances -- Year of Meteors -- Sullen Hymns of Defeat -- Elusive Victories : East and West, 1862-1863 -- The Soldier's Tale -- The Manufacture of War -- Year That Trembled : East and West, 1863 -- World Turned Upside Down -- Stalemate and Triumph -- A Dim Shore Ahead -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than 700 billion in property. The war also sparked some of the most heroic moments in American history and enshrined a galaxy of American heroes. Above all, it permanently ended the practice of slavery and proved, in an age of resurgent monarchies, that a liberal democracy could survive the most frightful of challenges. In Fateful Lightning, two-time Lincoln Prize |
| Notes |
"First edition ... was originally published as The crisis of the American Republic : a history of the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, St. Martin's Press, 1994"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140205
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Guelzo, Allen C.
Crisis of the American republic
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| LC no. |
2011041918 |
| ISBN |
9780199843299 |
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0199843295 |
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1280594004 |
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9781280594007 |
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0199939365 |
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9780199939367 |
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9786613623836 |
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6613623830 |
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