Author: Edward L. Ayers

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Todd Hagstette is an assistant professor of English at University of South Carolina Aiken, former director of the Simms Initiatives for the South Caroliniana Library, and founding director of the Digital U.S. South Initiative for the University of South Carolina Institute for Southern Studies. He is the editor of Reading William Gilmore Simms: Essays of Introduction to the Author”s Canon.




18 Ebooks by Edward L. Ayers

John Mayfield & Todd Hagstette: The Field of Honor
Current research on the history and evolution of moral standards and their role in Southern society For more than thirty years, the study of honor has been fundamental to understanding southern cul …
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€59.99
Edward L. Ayers: Southern Crossing
Edward L. Ayers monumental history, Promise of the New South, was praised by the eminent historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown as "A work of frequently stunning beauty, " who added "The …
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€16.47
Edward L. Ayers: Promise of the New South
At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle …
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€19.59
Edward L. Ayers: Promise of the New South
At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle …
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€18.50
Edward L. Ayers & Carolyn R. Martin: America on the Eve of the Civil War
‘This remarkable publication provides a captivating and brilliantly executed series of conversations among seventeen most impressive historians. These participants in a daylong conference focusing …
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€13.99
Edward L. Ayers: America s War
Edited by Edward L. Ayers, America s War is an anthology of Civil War writing originally published between 1852 and 2008. Co-published by the American Library Association and the National Endowment …
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€5.87
Edward L. Ayers & Gary W. Gallagher: Crucible of the Civil War
Crucible of the Civil War offers an illuminating portrait of the state’s wartime economic, political, and social institutions. Weighing in on contentious issues within established scholarship while …
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€20.99
Edward L. Ayers: In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864
Winner of the Bancroft Prize: Through a gripping narrative based on massive new research, a leading historian reshapes our understanding of the Civil War. Our standard Civil War histories tell a reas …
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€19.99
Edward L. Ayers: What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History
“An extremely good writer, [Ayers] is well worth reading . . . on the South and Southern history.”—Stephen Sears, Boston Globe The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of his …
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€16.99
Edward L. Ayers: The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
Winner of the Lincoln Prize A landmark Civil War history told from a fresh, deeply researched ground-level perspective. At the crux of America’s history stand two astounding events: the immediate a …
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€17.99
Christopher J. Young & Thomas C. Wilson: Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities
Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers is an edited collection of 24 articles that aims to introduce faculty, administrators, and staff to …
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€24.99
Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy: The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind
Already renowned as a statesman, Thomas Jefferson in his retirement from government turned his attention to the founding of an institution of higher learning. Never merely a patron, the former pres …
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€33.99
C. Vann Woodward: Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward
C. Vann Woodward is one of the most significant historians of the post-Reconstruction South. Over his career of nearly seven decades, he wrote nine books; won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes; penned …
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€31.47
C. Vann Woodward: Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward
C. Vann Woodward is one of the most significant historians of the post-Reconstruction South. Over his career of nearly seven decades, he wrote nine books; won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes; penned …
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€31.42
Edward L. Ayers & Bradley C. Mittendorf: Oxford Book of the American South
The Oxford Book of the American South resonates with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless as well as the powerful. The collection presents the most telling fiction and …
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€21.84
Edward L. Ayers: Southern Crossing
Edward L. Ayers monumental history, Promise of the New South, was praised by the eminent historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown as "A work of frequently stunning beauty, " who added "The …
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€20.28
Edward L. Ayers: American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860
A leading historian’s absorbing narrative of America’s formative period, when voices of dissent and innovation challenged the nation. With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or bla …
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€33.99
Brian Matthew Jordan & Jonathan W. White: Final Resting Places
Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation—and how tho …
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€33.99