‘Provocative and compelling…[a] wild ride through Civil War history.’—Library Journal
What if Lee had avoided defeat at Gettysburg? What if a military stalemate had developed, coupled with growing antiwar sentiment? What if Lincoln had been defeated in the 1864 election and Great Britain had recognized the Confederacy? What would have been the careers of an independent Confederate States of America and a defeated United States?‘No historian has thought through such ‘what if’ questions as seriously as Roger Ransom, ‘ says the
Washington Post Book World. A master of historical analysis, Roger L. Ransom follows the consequences of the ‘what if’ scenario over an extended period of time, exploring such issues as the fate of slavery in a CSA, how the economies of the USA and the CSA would have developed, and how their foreign policies would have differed. The result is a fascinating historical vision that is a source of insight into the critical events of the Civil War period as they actually happened.
A propos de l’auteur
Roger L. Ransom is professor of history and economics at the University of California, Riverside. He is coauthor of the groundbreaking work One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation.
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 368 ● ISBN 9780393078305 ● Taille du fichier 13.4 MB ● Maison d’édition W. W. Norton & Company ● Pays US ● Publié 2006 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7467481 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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