Chandra Manning
Auteur de What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War
A propos de l'auteur
Chandra Manning is assistant professor of history at Georgetown University.
Crédit image: Jenny Trurano
Œuvres de Chandra Manning
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- Autres noms
- Manning, Chandra M.
- Date de naissance
- 20th Century
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- Mount Holyoke College (BA|History|1993)
University College Galway (M.Phil|Irish Studies|1995)
Harvard University (AM|History|1997)
Harvard University (PhD|History|2002) - Professions
- professor (Georgetown University|History)
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What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and… par Chandra Manning
A wonderful read. Manning presents writings from the soldiers themselves in order to belie the common misconception that The Civil War was fought over anything other than slavery. While the soldiers' attitudes toward blacks did wax and wane through the war, Manning documents that this corresponded more with success on the battlefield, than the actions of the Lincolns Administration: units that succeeded more in combat remained most sympathetic to blacks, and vice versa.
4361. What This Cruel War Was Over Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War, by Chandra Manning (read 18 Sep 2007) This book's thesis is that slavery was the cause of the Civil War, and that soldiers largely saw it as the cause. This thesis is supported by much research in soldiers' letters and soldiers' newspapers, to an extent which became less interesting as the book proceeded. I applaud the research but it did not make for a riveting book and I was convinced of the truth of the thesis long before I finished the book--if I did not believe it before, as I did.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 283
- Popularité
- #82,295
- Évaluation
- 4.4
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 12