Stephanie McCurry

Broschiertes Buch

Confederate Reckoning

Power and Politics in the Civil War South

Beschreibung

The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the disenfranchised demanded to be counted and considered in the great struggle over slavery, emancipation, democracy, and nationhood. This title presents the story of this epic political battle.

Autor

Stephanie McCurry is the author of Confederate Reckoning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Merle Curti Prize, the Avery O. Craven Award, and the Willie Lee Rose Prize; and Masters of Small Worlds, winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize and four other awards. She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. McCurry is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University. She grew up in Belfast, Ireland, during the Troubles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780674064218
• ISBN-10: 0674064216
• Artikelnr.: 34225888