Lorien Foote

Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War

Herausgeber: Hess, Earl J

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War offers a wide-ranging, multi-perspective account of how military campaigns disrupted lives and changed the social and political history of America. It is the first book to combine campaign histories with an understanding of how those military operations affected the local population, the regions in which they occurred, and the national strategic-political context

Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 696
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1338g
• ISBN-13: 9780190903053
• ISBN-10: 0190903058
• Artikelnr.: 62114939

Autorenporträt

Lorien Foote is the Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor of History at Texas A&M University. She is the author of four books about the American Civil War including The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners of War, The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Manhood, Honor, and Violence in the Union Army, and Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform. Earl J. Hess, Emeritus Professor of History at Lincoln Memorial University, is the author of twenty-four books about the Civil War, including Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies, Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation, and Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Lorien Foote and Earl J. Hess
* 1. "From Border War to Civil War": Bleeding Kansas as a Call to Arms
* Kristen T. Oertel
* 2. A Slow Asphyxiation: The Cumulative Impact of the Union Blockade
* Craig L. Symonds
* 3. "We will fight, and hope for the best": The Outbreak of Civil War
and Missouri Identity 1861
* Ethan S. Rafuse
* 4. First Bull Run/Manassas: Southern Victory, Union Defeat, and
Antebellum Military Culture
* Barbara A. Gannon
* 5. Drawing a Line in Appalachia: The Influence of Terrain and Loyalty
on Community Level Warfare in Eastern Kentucky and Northwestern
Virginia, 1861-1862
* Brian D. McKnight
* 6. The Material War: Battling for Resources during the Campaign for
Forts Henry and Donelson
* Jason Phillips
* 7. The Union Occupation of Coastal North Carolina: Foundations for
Freedom
* David Silkenat
* 8. Symbol of Secession, Symbol of Freedom: Military Science,
Emancipation, and Social Collapse in the Campaign for Charleston
* Lorien Foote
* 9. The Civil War in Arkansas, 1862: Confederate Neglect, Divided
Loyalties, and Partisan Warfare
* Thomas W. Cutrer
* 10. Testing U.S. Authority in the Far West: The New Mexico Campaign
and the War for the Central Plains
* Stacey L. Smith
* 11. Torn by War: The Social and Political Unraveling of Indian
Territory
* Clarissa W. Confer
* 12. Shiloh and Corinth: The Campaigns that Changed the Civil War
* Stephen Engle
* 13. The Collapse of Confederate Resistance in the Mississippi Valley
in 1862 and the Politics of Recruitment
* Michael D. Pierson
* 14. Toward Hard War: The Peninsula Campaign and Jackson in the
Valley, 1862
* Christopher S. Stowe
* 15. "The Nation's Disappointment": The Seven Days' Battles and Public
Opinion
* Timothy J. Orr
* 16. "The Most Terrible March": Drought and the Kentucky Campaign
* Kenneth W. Noe
* 17. Western Republicans Confront Eastern Democrats: Second Manassas
as a Partisan Flashpoint of Regional Ideologies
* John H. Matsui
* 18. The Maryland Campaign: Carnage and Emancipation
* D. Scott Hartwig
* 19. The Battle of Fredericksburg: Military Occupation, Urban
Conflict, and the Defeat of Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac
* Barton A. Myers
* 20. Opening the Deep South: Grant's North Mississippi Campaign,
Chickasaw Bayou, and Exploitation of the Bottomlands
* Earl J. Hess
* 21. Stones River: Making Emancipation Work
* Earl J. Hess
* 22. The Fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson: Opening the Mississippi
and Fracturing the Deep South
* Earl J. Hess
* 23. The Chancellorsville Campaign: Strategic Contingency Point
* Christian B. Keller
* 24. War Comes to Free Soil: The Gettysburg Campaign of June-July 1863
* Carol Reardon
* 25. The Battle of Helena, the Little Rock Campaign, and the Capture
of Fort Smith: Emancipation, Loyalty, and Social-Economic Change in
Arkansas
* Carl Moneyhan
* 26. The Tullahoma and Chickamauga Campaigns: Discord, Disruption, and
Defeat
* Andrew S. Bledsoe
* 27. War in the Switzerland of America: Chattanooga and Knoxville
Campaigns
* Aaron Astor
* 28. The Overland Campaign, Spring 1864: Securing Freedom and the
Union in Virginia
* Lisa Tendrich Frank and Brooks D. Simpson
* 29. The Campaign for Atlanta: Displacing Civilians and Tearing Up
Georgia
* Earl J. Hess
* 30. Petersburg, Virginia June-August 1864: Confederate City in the
Crisis of War
* A. Wilson Greene
* 31. The Red River Campaign, 1864: The Union's Effort to Conquer,
Pacify, and Reconstruct Louisiana and Texas
* T. Michael Parrish
* 32. The 1864 Invasion of Missouri: Sterling Price, Guerrilla Warfare,
and the Fundamental Failure of the Confederate Military
* Joseph M. Beilein, Jr.
* 33. Home Front Becomes Battlefront: Sherman's March to the Sea
* Anne J. Bailey
* 34. Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville: Battle, Insurgency, and
Freed People on the Road to Emancipation in the Heartland
* B.F. Cooling
* 35. Petersburg Besieged and the Valley on Fire: The Beginning of the
End in Virginia
* James Marten
* 36. "Judgments of the Lord": The Carolinas as a Campaign of Reckoning
* Christopher Phillips
* 37. The Fall of Petersburg and Flight to Appomattox in the Spring of
1865: Victory, Defeat, and the Demise of Slavery
* Elizabeth R. Varon
* 38. International Repercussions: Texas, Mobile, and Wilson's Raid
* Earl J. Hess
* 39. Occupation, 1865-1877
* Andrew F. Lang