Ordeal by Fire : The Civil War and Reconstruction, Reprint
ISBN: 9780077430351 | 0077430352
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 3/2/2010
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Ordeal by Fireblends the most up-to-date scholarship with interpretations based on decades of teaching, research, and writing, to tell an important story--that of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event in American history. The fourth edition welcomes the addition of coauthor James Hogue of University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Hogue brings h... MORE
| Prologue: The Setting of Conflict | |
| The Coming of War | |
| American Modernization, 1800-1860 | |
| The Antebellum South | |
| The Ideological Conflict over Slavery | |
| Texas, Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850 | |
| Filibusters, Fugitives, and Nativists | |
| Kansas and the Rise of the Republican Party | |
| The Deepening Crisis, 1857-1859 | |
| ... MORE | |
| Secession and the Coming of War | |
| The Civil War | |
| A Brothers' War: The Upper South | |
| Mobilizing for War | |
| The Balance Sheet of War | |
| The War at Home and Abroad | |
| The Springtime of Northern Hope | |
| Jackson and Lee Strike Back | |
| Slavery and the War: Northern Politics, 1861-1862 | |
| The First Turning Point: Antietam and Emancipation | |
| The Winter of Northern Discontent | |
| The Second Turning Point: Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga | |
| War Issues and Politics in 1863 | |
| Behind the Lines | |
| Wartime Reconstruction and the Freedpeople | |
| Military Stalemate, 1864 | |
| The Third Turning Point: The Election of 1864 | |
| The End of the Confederacy | |
| Reconstruction | |
| The Problems of Peace | |
| The Origins of "Radical Reconstruction" | |
| Reconstruction and the Crisis of Impeachment | |
| The First Grant Administration | |
| The Making of the New Regime in the South, 1869-1872 | |
| Social and Economic Reconstruction | |
| The Retreat from Reconstruction | |
| The New South | |
| Epilogue | |
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