Author: Brian Holden ReidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial revolution
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The American Civil War and the Wars of the Industrial Revolution
Author: Brian Holden ReidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial revolution
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The American Civil War and the Wars of the Industrial Revolution
Author: Brian Holden ReidPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780304352302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
An illustrated brief history of the American Civil War.
A New Birth of Freedom?
Author: Carl A. WagnerPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Civil War And the American System
Author: W. Allen SalisburyPublisher: Executive Intelligence Review
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
When historian W. Allen Salisbury first wrote this book in 1978, he was seeking to teach Americans that the battle between the American System of economics and the British System of free trade which resulted in the Civil War, was at the center of the political battles of the 20th century. Today, this is even more true. The heirs of Adam Smith and the British Empire are pressing for worldwide adoption of free trade, a system which led to slavery in the 19th century, and would do so again today. And certain U.S. political circles are even openly demanding a return to the principles and Constitution of the Confederacy. Utilizing a rich selection of primary-source documents, Salisbury reintroduces the forgotten men of the Civil War-era battle for the American System: Mathew Carey, his son and successor Henry Carey, William Kelley, William Elder, and Stephen Colwell. Together with Abraham Lincoln, they demanded industrial-technological progress, against the ideological subversion of British "free trade" economists and the British-dominated Confederacy. Salisbury hightlights the career of Henry C. Carey, who, as Lincoln's leading economic adviser, acted to prevent a complete City of London banker's takeover of the United States political-economic system.
The American Civil War
Author: Brian Holden ReidPublisher:
ISBN: 9781552781036
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
It remains the bloodiest war of all-time. In The American Civil War, Brian Holden Reid examines the impact that the industrial revolution had on this war, and before that the Crimean War. This book contains 125 colour and black-and-white illustrations as well as 20 maps that show the strategies and results of the first modern war.
The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Brian Holden ReidPublisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060851200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history and a defining moment of the nineteenth century. In this concise and authoritative volume, Brian Holden Reid -- a leading expert on the subject -- reveals how industrialization and emerging methods of mass production gave birth to a new age of warfare, most dramatically represented in the unprecedented destruction and mass casualties of the American Civil War. Detailed, chronological history of the strategic and operational dimensions of both the Northern and Southern campaigns Strengths and weaknesses of the opposing sides Fresh perspectives on the war's global context Culmination of the war, peace negotiations, and their ramifications for the future
A Savage War
Author: Williamson MurrayPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400889375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
How the Civil War changed the face of war The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties and vagaries of chance that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. A Savage War sheds critical new light on this defining chapter in military history. In a masterful narrative that propels readers from the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox, Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh bring every aspect of the battlefield vividly to life. They show how this new way of waging war was made possible by the powerful historical forces unleashed by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, yet how the war was far from being simply a story of the triumph of superior machines. Despite the Union’s material superiority, a Union victory remained in doubt for most of the war. Murray and Hsieh paint indelible portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and other major figures whose leadership, judgment, and personal character played such decisive roles in the fate of a nation. They also examine how the Army of the Potomac, the Army of Northern Virginia, and the other major armies developed entirely different cultures that influenced the war’s outcome. A military history of breathtaking sweep and scope, A Savage War reveals how the Civil War ushered in the age of modern warfare.
Strategic Inventions of the Civil War
Author: Ann ByersPublisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1502610310
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Civil War was the bloodiest war America has ever faced. In many ways, it was a time of change for the United States. One of these changes was in the technologies that were developed and used. The repeating rifle, the railroad, and the submarine are technologies that were created, tested, or greatly improved during this crisis. This book explores the effect of the war, the impact each technology had on the war and on society in the years and decades following it, and the legacy of these events and developments today.
Five Lectures on the American Civil War, 1861–1865
Author: Raimondo LuraghiPublisher: John Cabot University Press
ISBN: 1611494273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
The product of over thirty years of research on the American Civil War by Italy’s most renowned authority on the subject, this study synthetically analyzes the great drama that from 1861 to 1865 devastated the United States and gave life to the modern American nation. The book also highlights how the Civil War was the first conflict of the industrial age and an often neglected premonition of the two great world wars that shook the world in the twentieth century. The short essays presented here are the texts of five lectures delivered several years ago at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici in Naples and published in Italy in 1997.
On the Road to Total War
Author: Stig FörsterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521521192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
On the Road to Total War attempts to trace the roots and development of total industrialised warfare, a concept which terrorises citizens and soldiers alike. Mass mobilisation of people and resources and the growth of nationalism led to this totalisation of war in nineteenth-century industrialised nations. In this collection of essays, international scholars focus on the social, political, economic, and cultural impact of the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification.