The Civil War was America's great national trauma. Like the Napoleonic Wars in nineteenth-century Europe and World War II in the twentieth, the Civil War birthed a new civic order. Politics, economic and social life, and cultural expression all assumed a new cast for the war's participants and their children. Even a century and a half later, after industrialization, urbanization, the dramatic expansion of America's military and political power in the world, and generations of cultural change, the war's impact is plain to see--
- | Author: Aaron Sheehan-Dean
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Oct 31, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 2400 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1107154588
- | ISBN-13: 9781107154582
