Bitterly Divided - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bitterly Divided write by David Williams. This book was released on 2010-04-16. Bitterly Divided available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The little-known history of anti-secession Southerners: “Absolutely essential Civil War reading.” —Booklist, starred review Bitterly Divided reveals that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars—the external one that we know so much about, and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness. In this fascinating look at a hidden side of the South’s history, David Williams shows the powerful and little-understood impact of the thousands of draft resisters, Southern Unionists, fugitive slaves, and other Southerners who opposed the Confederate cause. “This fast-paced book will be a revelation even to professional historians. . . . His astonishing story details the deep, often murderous divisions in Southern society. Southerners took up arms against each other, engaged in massacres, guerrilla warfare, vigilante justice and lynchings, and deserted in droves from the Confederate army . . . Some counties and regions even seceded from the secessionists . . . With this book, the history of the Civil War will never be the same again.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Most Southerners looked on the conflict with the North as ‘a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight,’ especially because owners of 20 or more slaves and all planters and public officials were exempt from military service . . . The Confederacy lost, it seems, because it was precisely the kind of house divided against itself that Lincoln famously said could not stand.” —Booklist, starred review
Bitterly Divided
Bitterly Divided - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bitterly Divided write by David Williams. This book was released on 2010. Bitterly Divided available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bitterly Divided lays bare the myth of a united confederacy, revealing that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars--an external one that we know so much about and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness. A fascinating look at a hidden side of the South's history, historian David Williams shows the powerful and little-understood impact of the thousands of draft resisters, Southern Unionists, fugitive slaves, and other Southerners who opposed the Confederate cause.
Obama in Office
Obama in Office - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Obama in Office write by James A. Thurber. This book was released on 2015-12-03. Obama in Office available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Barack Obama entered office on a wave of popular expectation; will he exit at the hands of a Tea Party inspired populist tsunami or return for four more years? Obama in Office brings together well-established political scientists and journalists to offer the first detailed assessment of President Obama and his first two years in office. This book covers the range of policy tests which the administration has faced during this period, including the recession and its jobless recovery, health care reform, financial regulation, the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, and the ongoing war in Afghanistan. Looking beyond the midterms, Obama in Office considers the results of 2010, the impact of the Tea Party, and the prospects for 2012.
The International Dimensions of Internal Conflict
The International Dimensions of Internal Conflict - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The International Dimensions of Internal Conflict write by Michael Edward Brown. This book was released on 1996. The International Dimensions of Internal Conflict available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Internal conflicts threaten many countries and regions globally. The first part of this book examines the sources of internal conflicts and the ways these may affect neighbouring states and the international community. The second part covers specific problems, policy instruments and key actors.
Pagans and Christians in the City
Pagans and Christians in the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagans and Christians in the City write by Steven D. Smith. This book was released on 2018-11-15. Pagans and Christians in the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues.
