The Oxford handbook of the American Civil War / edited by Lorien Foote, Earl J. Hess.
This title assembles the contributions of 39 leading scholars of the Civil War, each chapter advancing the central thesis that operational military history is decisively linked to the social and political history of Civil War America. The chapters cover all three major theaters of the war and includ...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Oxford Handbooks Online) |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | , |
| Other title: | Handbook of the American Civil War. American Civil War. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2021.
|
| Series: | Oxford handbooks online.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The Union Occupation of Coastal North Carolina: Foundations for Freedom / David Silkenat
- The Civil War in Arkansas, 1862: Divided Loyalties and Partisan Warfare / Thomas W. Cutrer
- New Mexico and the Central Great Plains in the Civil War: Testing U.S. Authority / Stacey L. Smith
- Indian Territory: Social and Political Unraveling / Clarissa W. Confer
- Shiloh and Corinth: The Campaigns that Changed the Civil War / Stephen Engle
- Mississippi Valley, 1862: Politics of Recruitment / Michael D. Pierson
- The Peninsula Campaign and Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, 1862 / Christopher Stowe
- The Seven Days' Battles and Public Opinion / Timothy J. Orr
- The Kentucky Campaign of 1862 and Drought / Kenneth W. Noe
- Second Bull Run/Manassas: Clash of Partisan Armies / John H. Matsui
- Campaign for Charleston: Military Science, Emancipation, and Social Collapse / Lorien Foote
- The Maryland Campaign: Carnage and Emancipation / D. Scott Hartwig
- The Battle of Fredericksburg: Military Occupation, Urban Conflict, and the Defeat of Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac / Barton A. Myers
- Grant's North Mississippi Campaign, Chickasaw Bayou, and the Bottomlands / Earl J. Hess
- Stones River: Making Emancipation Work / Earl J. Hess
- Vicksburg and Port Hudson / Earl J. Hess
- The Chancellorsville Campaign: Strategic Contingency Point / Christian B. Keller
- The Gettysburg Campaign: War Comes to Free Soil / Carol Reardon
- The Battle of Helena, the Little Rock Campaign, and the Capture of Fort Smith, 1863 / Carl Moneyhan
- The Tullahoma and Chickamauga Campaigns: Discord, Disruption, and Defeat / Andrew S. Bledsoe
- The Chattanooga and Knoxville Campaigns: War in the Switzerland of America / Aaron Astor
- The Overland Campaign: No Turning Back / Lisa Tendrich Frank, Brooks D. Simpson
- The Campaign for Atlanta: Displacing Civilians and Tearing Up Georgia / Earl J. Hess
- Petersburg, Virginia, June-August 1864: Confederate City in the Crisis of War / A. Wilson Greene
- The Red River Campaign, 1864: The Union's Effort to Conquer, Pacify, and Reconstruct Louisiana and Texas / T. Michael Parrish
- The 1864 Invasion of Missouri: Sterling Price, Guerrilla Warfare, and the Fundamental Failure of the Confederate Military / Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
- Sherman's March to the Sea: Home Front Becomes Battlefront / Anne J. Bailey
- Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville: Battle, Insurgency, and Freed People on the Road to Emancipation in the Heartland / B. F. Cooling
- Petersburg Besieged and the Valley on Fire: The Beginning of the End in Virginia / James Marten
- The Carolinas Campaign: A War Reckoning / Christopher Phillips
- Texas, Mobile, and Wilson's Raid: International Repercussions / Earl J. Hess
- Bleeding Kansas as a Call to Arms / Kristen T. Oertel
- The Fall of Petersburg and Appomattox / Elizabeth R. Varon
- Occupation, 1865-1877 / Andrew F. Lang
- Introduction / Lorien Foote, Earl J. Hess
- The Union Blockade: A Slow Asphyxiation / Craig L. Symonds
- Missouri 1861: War and Identity / Ethan S. Rafuse
- First Bull Run/Manassas: Antebellum Military Culture / Barbara A. Gannon
- Eastern Kentucky and Northwestern Virginia, 1861-1862: Terrain and Loyalty / Brian D. McKnight
- Forts Henry and Donelson: The Material War / Jason Phillips.