The Routledge Companion to the American Civil War Available to Purchase

This latest title fully measures up to the high standard claimed for the Routledge Companions to History series which, we are told, offers “perfect reference guides to key historical events and eras, providing everything that the student or general reader needs to know”. It reviews, in some detail, the interrelated social, economic, religious, industrial and political and constitutional issues that were involved in what were undoubtedly significant historical events whose legacy lingers to this day. An introduction firmly puts the issues into their historical perspective and unequivocally identifies the emancipation of the slaves and the search for social justice in...