Writing the Civil War : The Quest to Understand - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570033897 ISBN 13: 9781570033896

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2000

Synopsis

No event has transformed the United States more fundamentally―or been studied more exhaustively―than the Civil War. In Writing the Civil War, fourteen distinguished historians present a wide-ranging examination of the vast effort to chronicle the conflict―an undertaking that began with the remembrances of Civil War veterans and has become an increasingly prolific field of scholarship. Covering topics from battlefield operations to the impact of race and gender, this volume is an informative guide through the labyrinth of Civil War literature. The contributors provide authoritative and interpretive evaluations of the study and explication of the struggle that has been called the American Iliad.

About this title

About the Author:

James M. McPherson is the author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1989, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, the 1998 winner of the Lincoln Prize. He is the George Henry Davis Professor of American History at Princeton University and lives in Princeton.

Review:

"The distinction of the editors is matched by the distinction of the contributors of the twelve essays in the volume; their names read like a roster of the current leading figures in the field."―Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1570033897
• ISBN 13: 9781570033896
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: McPherson James M., Cooper Jr. William J.