Brothers by blood before the war; brothers in blood after. The blood mingled in the Civil Was became the symbol and perverse source of indissoluble union between two sections, two ways of life, two visions of the future, and even two revolutions. In riveting detail, veteran Civil War historian Frank E. Vandiver recounts the campaigns and major battles of the first war of the Industrial Revolution, with its machinery, firepower, and engineering beyond imagination. With provocative insight, he traces a picture of the ...
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Brothers by blood before the war; brothers in blood after. The blood mingled in the Civil Was became the symbol and perverse source of indissoluble union between two sections, two ways of life, two visions of the future, and even two revolutions. In riveting detail, veteran Civil War historian Frank E. Vandiver recounts the campaigns and major battles of the first war of the Industrial Revolution, with its machinery, firepower, and engineering beyond imagination. With provocative insight, he traces a picture of the war as rooted in the character and vision of its two leaders and their two sectional revolutions. In the North, Abraham Lincoln built a massive war effort by expanding executive authority, sometimes in ways beyond the Constitution. Not only emancipation, but also new monetary policies, new forms of commercial organization and production, and new ways of raising and commanding armies made a different United States, shaped for world power. In the service of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, a states' righter, became a Confederate nationalist. Keeping up the fight forced him and many Southerners to accept both a centralization and an industrialization they hated. When the dream was lost and the country gone, vestiges of this revolution would make the Southern system compatible with the new economic, social, and political system that had emerged in the North. The South might look back fondly, but it was readier than it knew for what would come: a new union, one and finally indivisible.
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Very Good. Jacket of spine has faded and some minor shelf wear. Also some handwritting on top corner of first blank page. Content is fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History, 26.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Call numbers on label on spine, bar codes on front and rear covers, library stamp on front endpaper, edges curved and corners slightly creased. 210 pages.
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New. No dust jacket as issued. BRAND NEW! ! ! STILL IN Plasticwrap. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 209 p. Texas A & M University Military History (Paperback), 26. Audience: General/trade. SHIPS FROM BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN PRYOR OKLAHOMA BOOKSELLER
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Very Good. Book "In riveting detail yet with broad sweep, veteran Civil War historian Frank E. Vandiver recounts the campaigns and major battles of the first war of the Industrial Revolution, with its machinery, firepower, and engineering beyond imagination." Pictorial wraps with bloody battle illustration, 209 pp., very generously illustrated with Civil War photos, 4 maps. Minimal shelf wear. One name neatly underlined (p. 69), otherwise clean text with tight binding.
