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Cultures in Conflict--The American Civil War
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Steven E. Woodworth
Book Code: GR0651
ISBN: 0-313-30651-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30651-8
240 pages, photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 3/30/2000
List Price: $55.00 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • ...skillfully written and edited and an excellent read for beginning students and general readers.
    —Choice
  • Highly recommended as being a broad-minded, fair-handed study of the forces shaping the war and the scars left behind in their wake,Cultures In Conflict is enhanced for both scholarship and the non-specialist general reader with appendixes offering the text of Ho Chi Minh's declaration of independence and his letter to President Harry S Truman.
    —MBR:Internet Bookwatch     October 2002
  • This informative book presents history at its best....a wonderful starting point for essays or classroom discussions.
    —VOYA     February 2001
  • This is the Civil War as it really was, not from the halls of power, but from the homes of those who did the fighting, the dying and of those who carried on.
    —Star Banner     .
  • Steven E. Woodworth gets at the heart of the Civil War.
    —Civil War Times     .
  • This book should appeal to a wide audience and will find a home in many undergraduate classrooms.
    —Journal of Southern History     February 2002
  • ...its first-person accounts are excellent reminders that in the final analysis all history is a mosaic of each individual's experiences.
    —American Reference Books Annual     June 2002
  • ...often provocative....a useful addition to a Civil War course...
    —Civil War History
Description: The American Civil War was primarily a conflict of cultures, and slavery was the largest single cultural factor separating North and South. This collection of carefully selected memoirs, diaries, letters, and reminiscences of ordinary Northerners and Southerners who experienced the war as soldiers or civilians brings to life the conflict in culture, principles, attitudes, hopes, courage, and suffering of both sides. Woodworth, a Civil War historian, has selected a wide variety of moving first person accounts, each of which tells a story of a life as well as the attitudes of ordinary people and the real conditions of war and homefront. Woodworth presents the war in the words of those who lived it. Contrasting selections will help the reader to see the war through the eyes of Northerners and Southerners as: soldiers prepare for war; women's lives change after the men go to war; soldiers on both sides experience the difficulties of camp life; sweethearts (the half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln and her Confederate fiancé) exchange heartfelt letters; a husband's letters and his wife's diary recount their love, his death in battle, and her deep loss, countered by her faith; soldiers and civilians recount the carnage of the war's devastating battles; and people on both sides reflect on the outcome of the war and its consequences to their way of life. The accounts contrast the writers' attitudes toward Northern and Southern society, the principles for which those societies stood, and the religious significance of the war. These accounts and the narrative discussion of the difference in culture will help readers to understand the Civil War as a conflict of cultures. Telling the story of the war as personal history makes the experience of the Civil War come alive for readers.
Table of Contents:
  • The Fiery Trial--The Civil War in Historical Perspective
  • A Brief Historical Overview of the Civil War
  • The American Ways of Life, North and South
  • Documents
  • The North and South Prepare for Conflict
  • Early Exuberance Gives Way to Steady Determination
  • The Warring Sections Persevere through Tiresome Months of Struggle
  • The War's Concluding Phases Bring Triumph and Sorrow
  • Reflecting
  • Ideas for Exploration
  • Index
LC Card Number: 99-43165
LCC Class: E464
Dewey Class: 973
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