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Edward L. Ayers

In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America 1859-1863

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Our standard Civil War histories tell a reassuring story of the triumph, in an inevitable conflict, of the dynamic, free-labor North over the traditional, slave-based South, vindicating the freedom principles built into the nation's foundations.But at the time, on the borderlands of Pennsylvania and Virginia, no one expected war, and no one knew how it would turn out. The one certainty was that any war between the states would be fought in their fields and streets.Edward L. Ayers gives us a different Civil War, built on an intimate scale. He charts the descent into war in the Great Valley spanning Pennsylvania and Virginia. Connected by stron… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-393-32601-7
  • EAN: 9780393326017
  • Produktnummer: 19418580
  • Verlag: W W Norton & Co
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 472 S.
  • Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.6 cm x D3.5 cm 392 g
  • Gewicht: 392

Über den Autor


Edward L. Ayers's The Thin Light of Freedom completes his prize-winning history of the Civil War and its aftermath in the Great Valley that began with In the Presence of Mine Enemies. Ayers' superb history has been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Lincoln Prize, and the Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President Obama, Ayers is the Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus of the University of Richmond.

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