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America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
by David Goldfield
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1596917024
- ISBN 13
- 9781596917026
- Seller
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Independence, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
From the front DJ flap: "In this spellbinding new history of the Civil War, David Goldfield crafts the first major reinterpretation of the conflict - its causes and costs - since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second Great Awakening surged through the nation, political questions became matters of good and evil - differences serious enough to kill and die for."
"The price of the war was horrific, but...it made the United States one nation and eliminated the divisive presence of slavery."
The narrative is from the 1830's to the end of Reconstruction.
Book - Near Fine condition. Orange paper on boards with gold gilt on spine. Back bottom corner has been bumped, otherwise very minimal edge/corner wear. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Very Good+ condition. Slight bit of edge/corner wear.
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632 pages including Index.
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- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1754
- Title
- America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
- Author
- David Goldfield
- Format/Binding
- Paper over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1596917024
- ISBN 13
- 9781596917026
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011-03
- Pages
- 632
- Keywords
- American history, Civil War, causes, costs of war, evangelical religion, political questions, good and evil, 1930's, Reconstruction, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Carl Schurz, Alexander Stephens
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War; History - American; Sociology;
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- Gilt
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