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What Caused the Civil War? Edward L. Ayers (University of Richmond)

What Caused the Civil War? By Edward L. Ayers (University of Richmond)

What Caused the Civil War? by Edward L. Ayers (University of Richmond)


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An extremely good writer, [Ayers] is well worth reading . . . on the South and Southern history.-Stephen Sears, Boston Globe

What Caused the Civil War? Summary

What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History by Edward L. Ayers (University of Richmond)

The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportions-a system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at a federal Union, deep poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced development-have fed the imaginations of some of our most accomplished historians.

Foremost in their ranks today is Edward L. Ayers, author of the award-winning and ongoing study of the Civil War in the heart of America, the Valley of the Shadow Project. In wide-ranging essays on the Civil War, the New South, and the twentieth-century South, Ayers turns over the rich soil of Southern life to explore the sources of the nation's and his own history. The title essay, original here, distills his vast research and offers a fresh perspective on the nation's central historical event.

About Edward L. Ayers (University of Richmond)

Edward L. Ayers's The Thin Light of Freedom completes his prize-winning history of the Civil War and its aftermath in the Great Valley that began with In the Presence of Mine Enemies. Ayers' superb history has been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Lincoln Prize, and the Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President Obama, Ayers is the Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus of the University of Richmond.

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GOR007228088
9780393328530
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What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History by Edward L. Ayers (University of Richmond)
Used - Very Good
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WW Norton & Co
20060822
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