Adam I. P. Smith

Gettysburg

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gettysburg provides an engaging and succinct overview of why the battle of Gettysburg happened, its outcome and why it mattered. It explains why Gettysburg is the most "famous" battle of the American Civil War, and which, it is often said, was the "turning point" of the war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm
• ISBN-13: 9780199671274
• ISBN-10: 0199671273
• Artikelnr.: 71553165

Autorenporträt

Adam I. P. Smith was born in the Northeast of England. He read History at Oxford before going on to do postgraduate work at Sheffield, Cambridge, and Harvard Universities. He taught at University College London before being appointed Edward Orsborn Professor of US Politics and Political History at Oxford. He is also the Director of the Rothermere American Institute and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. His previous books have included The Stormy Present: Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics (2017), which won the Jefferson Davis Prize and was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The many roads to Gettysburg
2: The Invasion
3: The Tide Turns
4: Aftermath
5: Lincoln at Gettysburg
6: The Lost Cause Founded
7: Northerners and the war to 1913
8: Battlefield and Nation in the twentieth century
9: The never-ending battle