Военная история / Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front

Издательство: ABC-CLIO
Автор: James Marten
Название: Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front
Язык: английский
Год издания: 2003
Количество страниц: 361
ISBN: 1-57607-237-1
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 7 мб

The author of an acclaimed account of the lives of children in the Civil War, Marten here provides a more comprehensive introduction to the civilian history of the Civil War. Concise, vividly written chapters describe the home front through the lives of individuals and the histories of events and institutions in the North and South. The stories are organized around five broad themes: the Northern home front, the Southern home front, children, African Americans, and the war aftermath. The case studies feature voices of the famous, like Edmund Riffin and Booker T. Washington, but more often they offer the testimony of ordinary men, women, and children. A superb blend of traditional narrative, case studies, and individual stories, Civil War America is a valuable resource for students and their teachers seeking to understand the many ways in which the Civil War was truly a people war.