| Description |
xvii, 253 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"Gettysburg Civil War Institute books"--P. [ii]. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-253). |
| Contents |
"And the war came"? : Abraham Lincoln and the question of individual responsibility / Gabor S. Boritt -- "Little women" who helped make this great war / Glenna Matthews -- They knew what time it was : African-Americans / David W. Blight -- The crisis of American democracy : the political system and the coming of the Civil War / William E. Gienapp -- The divided south, democracy's limitations, and the causes of the peculiarly North American Civil War / William W. Freehling -- "Freedom and law must die ere they sever" : the North / Mark Wahlgren Summers -- Fort Sumter : at last the war / Charles Royster. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
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| Indexed Term |
United States History, 1861 - 1865 |
| Added Author |
Boritt, G. S., 1940-
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Blight, David W.
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| ISBN |
0195079418 (acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780195079418 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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