03111nam 2200613 450 991078722280332120230126212605.00-19-937579-80-19-937578-X(CKB)3710000000331773(EBL)1920743(SSID)ssj0001403212(PQKBManifestationID)12474019(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403212(PQKBWorkID)11365810(PQKB)11637050(Au-PeEL)EBL1920743(CaPaEBR)ebr11006376(CaONFJC)MIL691751(OCoLC)900081388(MiAaPQ)EBC1920743(EXLCZ)99371000000033177320150127h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe war that forged a nation why the Civil War still matters /James McPhersonNew York :Oxford University Press,2015.©20151 online resource1-322-60469-X 0-19-937577-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Why the Civil War Still Matters -- Mexico, California, and the Coming of the Civil War -- A Just War? -- Death and Destruction in the Civil War -- American Navies and British Neutrality During the Civil War -- The Rewards of Risk-Taking : Two Civil War Admirals -- How Did Freedom Come? -- Lincoln, Slavery, and Freedom -- A. Lincoln, Commander in Chief -- The Commander Who Would Not Fight : McClellan and Lincoln -- Lincoln's Legacy for Our Time -- War and Peace in the Post-Civil War South.More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had ""uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations."" In fact, five generations have passed, and Americans are still trying to measure the influence of the immense fratricidal conflict that nearly tore the nation apart. In The War that Forged a Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why the Civil War remains so deeply embedded in our national psyche and identity.War and societyUnited StatesHistorySocial changeUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865InfluenceUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Psychological aspectsUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Social aspectsWar and societyHistory.Social changeHistory.973.7/1HIS036050HIS036000HIS036040bisacshMcPherson James M.136582MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787222803321The war that forged a nation3678542UNINA