Jason Phillips (Eberly Profe Eberly Professor of Civil War Studies

Looming Civil War

How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future

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Produktbeschreibung

The Civil War haunted Americans long before it happened. As this innovative book shows, forecasts and prophecies of bloodshed shaped how people approached the conflict and reacted to its unfolding drama. The war changed America's future and transformed how Americans have thought about the future ever since.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 169mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780190868161
• ISBN-10: 0190868163
• Artikelnr.: 53301194

Autorenporträt

Jason Phillips is the Eberly Family Professor of Civil War Studies in the Department of History at West Virginia University. He is the author of Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility and the editor of Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Prologue: Looming
Chapter 1: Horizons
Chapter 2: Speculations
Chapter 3: Rumors
Chapter 4: Prophecies
Chapter 5: Anticipations
Chapter 6: Expectations
Epilogue: Shadows
Notes
Index