Author: Brian Holden Reid
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780304352302
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated brief history of the American Civil War.
Author: Carl A. Wagner
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: W. Allen Salisbury
Publisher: Executive Intelligence Review
Published: 2015-09-03
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Brian Holden Reid
Publisher:
Published: 1999-08-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781552781036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Stig Förster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-22
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9780521521192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Brian Holden Reid
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2006-01-31
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780060851200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Author: Ann Byers
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-12-15
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1502610310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Raimondo Luraghi
Publisher: John Cabot University Press
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 1611494273
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Williamson Murray
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-05-22
Total Pages: 617
ISBN-13: 1400889375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.