A Companion to the US Civil War (2 Vols)

Unusually for this series, Wiley-Blackwell have chosen to devote two volumes to the civil war. But this is no surprise because, in the world of American scholarship, the civil war constitutes an entire branch of historiography by itself. The gusher of material flows thick and fast. Whilst the war lasted four years, the debates about its significance have ebbed and flowed for a century and a half with no end in sight. This will continue to be true because the task of interpreting and re-interpreting the civil war inspires each generation of scholars afresh. Of course, this book is not...