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PublisherMcGraw-Hill Higher Education

ISBN-100072317361

ISBN-139780072317367

eBay Product ID (ePID)36687

Product Key Features

Number of Pages816 Pages

Publication NameOrdeal by Fire : the Civil War and Reconstruction

LanguageEnglish

SubjectUnited States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Publication Year2000

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

AuthorJames M. Mcpherson, James Hogue

Subject AreaHistory

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight2.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number3

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN00-025043

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal973.7

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Table Of ContentPrologue: The Setting of Conflict Part One: The Coming of War Chapter One: American Modernization, 1800-1860 Chapter Two: The Antebellum South Chapter Three: The Ideological Conflict over Slavery Chapter Four: Texas, Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850 Chapter Five: Filibusters, Fugitives, and Nativists Chapter Six: Kansas and the Rise of the Republican Party Chapter Seven: The Deepening Crisis, 1857-1859 Chapter Eight: The Critical Year, 1859-1860 Chapter Nine: Secession and the Coming of War Part Two: The Civil War Chapter Ten: A Brothers' War: The Upper South Chapter Eleven: Mobilizing for War Chapter Twelve: The Balance Sheet of War Chapter Thirteen: The War at Home and Abroad Chapter Fourteen: The Springtime of Northern Hope Chapter Fifteen: Jackson and Lee Strike Back Chapter Sixteen: Slavery and the War: Northern Politics, 1861-1862 Chapter Seventeen: The First Turning Point: Antietam and Emancipation Chapter Eighteen: The Winter of Northern Discontent Chapter Nineteen: The Second Turning Point: Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga Chapter Twenty: War Issues and Politics in 1863 Chapter Twenty-One: Behind the Lines Chapter Twenty-Two: Wartime Reconstruction and the Freedpeople Chapter Twenty-Three: Military Stalemate, 1864 Chapter Twenty-Four: The Third Turning Point: The Election of 1864 Chapter Twenty-Five: The End of the Confederacy Part Three: Reconstruction Chapter Twenty-Six: The Problems of Peace Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Origins of "Radical Reconstruction" Chapter Twenty-Eight: Reconstruction and the Crisis of Impeachment Chapter Twenty-Nine: The First Grant Administration Chapter Thirty: The Southern Question, 1869-1872 Chapter Thirty-One: Social and Economic Reconstruction Chapter Thirty-Two: The Retreat from Reconstruction Chapter Thirty-Three: The New South Epilogue

SynopsisThis text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event in American history. The third edition incorporates recent scholarship and addresses renewed areas of interest in the Civil War/Reconstruction era including the motivations and experiences of common soldiers and the role of women in the war effort.

LC Classification NumberE468.M23 2001