Fateful lightning : a new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Author/Creator:

Guelzo, Allen C.

Publication/Creation:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Format:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Fateful lightning : a new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction / Allen C. Guelzo

Related/Included Titles:

Crisis of the American republic.

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Guelzo, Allen C. Crisis of the American republic

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Description/Summary

Table of 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.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

576 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

General Note:

"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"--T.p. verso.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990031239740302486

ISBN:

0199843287 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780199843282 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC Number:

757133879

Barcode:

010002601019