A Place Called APPOMATTOX - Brossura

Marvel, William

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ISBN 10: 0809328313 ISBN 13: 9780809328314

Casa editrice: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

In A Place Called Appomattox, William Marvel turns his extensive Civil War scholarship toward Appomattox County, Virginia, and the village of Appomattox Court House, which became synonymous with the end of the Civil War when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant there in 1865. Marvel presents a formidably researched and elegantly written analysis of the county from 1848 to 1877, using it as a microcosm of Southern attitudes, class issues, and shifting cultural mores that shaped the Civil War and its denouement.

With an eye toward correcting cultural myths and enriching the historical record, Marvel analyzes the rise and fall of the village and county from 1848 to 1877, detailing the domestic economic and social vicissitudes of the village, and setting the stage for the flight of Lee’s Army toward Appomattox and the climactic surrender that still resonates today.

Now available for the first time in paperback,A Place Called Appomattox reveals a new view of the Civil War, tackling some of the thorniest issues often overlooked by the nostalgic exaggerations and historical misconceptions that surround Lee’s surrender.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

William Marvel has written a dozen books about the Civil War, includingAndersonville: The Last Depot (for which he won the Lincoln Prize); Lee’s Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox; andMr. Lincoln Goes to War.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0809328313
• ISBN 13: 9780809328314
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 400