Description
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.
Author: Edward L. Ayers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/17/2006
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.56w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780393328530
ISBN10: 0393328538
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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.
Author: Edward L. Ayers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/17/2006
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.56w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780393328530
ISBN10: 0393328538
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)