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"While it has been a matter of quiet satisfaction that the main outlines of the story require little or no revision in the light of these new studies, I welcome the opportunity to refine or expand my treatment of several subjects that have been the focus of particularly intensive scholarship in the recent years: the changing status of women during this [Civil War] era, and their contributions to the war efforts of both sides ; the impact of economic growth on the antebellum working class ; the ambivalent position of nonslaveholding whites in a slave society at war ; internal political and social issues in the Confederacy ; and the active part the slave population took in their own emancipation"--Pref., 2nd ed.
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Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, James M. McPherson
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- Released
- 1992
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- Title
- Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction
- Language
- English
- Authors
- James M. McPherson
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill College
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 713
- ISBN10
- 0070458421
- ISBN13
- 9780070458420
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, School, American History, Required Reading, Civil War, Civil War (1861-1865)
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- "While it has been a matter of quiet satisfaction that the main outlines of the story require little or no revision in the light of these new studies, I welcome the opportunity to refine or expand my treatment of several subjects that have been the focus of particularly intensive scholarship in the recent years: the changing status of women during this [Civil War] era, and their contributions to the war efforts of both sides ; the impact of economic growth on the antebellum working class ; the ambivalent position of nonslaveholding whites in a slave society at war ; internal political and social issues in the Confederacy ; and the active part the slave population took in their own emancipation"--Pref., 2nd ed.