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Autore |
Paludan Phillip Shaw <1938-2007.> |
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Titolo |
Victims : a true story of the Civil War / / Phillip Shaw Paludan |
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Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, 1981 |
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ISBN |
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9786613582935 |
1-280-48770-4 |
1-57233-768-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 144 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Massacres - North Carolina - Shelton Laurel Valley |
Shelton Laurel Massacre, N.C., 1863 |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One: The Place; Chapter Two: The Officers and the General; Chapter Three: Loyalty and Treason in the Mountains; Chapter Four: The Killing; Chapter Five: Aftermath; Epilogue; Appendix; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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""Phillip Paludan has combined the findings of the social sciences with an exercise in la petite histoire to create an intriguing study. From his base point, the massacre of thirteen Unionist mountaineers at Shelton Laurel, North Carolina, the author expands the investigation to embrace larger issues, such as the impact of the Civil War on small communities, the causation and characteristics of guerrilla warfare, and the focus underlying human perversity."" -Civil War History"". . . the definitive history of the Shelton Laurel Massacre, but more important it is a pathbreaking study of a p |
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