Author: Bentley Historical LibraryPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Guide to Manuscripts in the Bentley Historical Library
Author: Bentley Historical LibraryPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Guide to Reprints
Author: The Road to Disunion
Author: William W. FreehlingPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199708371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks's beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate chambers, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and much more. As Freehling shows, the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked a political crisis, but at first most Southerners took a cautious approach, willing to wait and see what Lincoln would do--especially, whether he would take any antagonistic measures against the South. But at this moment, the extreme fringe in the South took charge, first in South Carolina and Mississippi, but then throughout the lower South, sounding the drum roll for secession. Indeed, The Road to Disunion is the first book to fully document how this decided minority of Southern hotspurs took hold of the secessionist issue and, aided by a series of fortuitous events, drove the South out of the Union. Freehling provides compelling profiles of the leaders of this movement--many of them members of the South Carolina elite. Throughout the narrative, he evokes a world of fascinating characters and places as he captures the drama of one of America's most important--and least understood--stories. The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning Secessionists at Bay, which was hailed as "the most important history of the Old South ever published," this volume concludes a major contribution to our understanding of the Civil War. A compelling, vivid portrait of the final years of the antebellum South, The Road to Disunion will stand as an important history of its subject. "This sure-to-be-lasting work--studded with pen portraits and consistently astute in its appraisal of the subtle cultural and geographic variations in the region--adds crucial layers to scholarship on the origins of America's bloodiest conflict." --The Atlantic Monthly "Splendid, painstaking account...and so a work of history reaches into the past to illuminate the present. It is light we need, and we owe Freehling a debt for shedding it." --Washington Post "A masterful, dramatic, breathtakingly detailed narrative." --The Baltimore Sun
Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History of the United States to 1783
Author: Charles McLean AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1442
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, in Minor London Archives, and in the Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge
Author: Charles McLean AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
Author: Florence NightingalePublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889204675
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 951
Book Description
Florence Nightingale is famous as the ""lady with the lamp"" in the Crimean War, 1854-56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale's correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale's efforts to achieve real reforms. He.
Guide to the Materials for American History, to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain ...
Author: Charles McLean AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1862
Book Description
Author: