BARKER : The Civil War in America (ajánló)
In this compact, complete, and lucid volume, a distinguished British historian pinpoints both the conflicts in political theory and the social issues that exploded into the Civil War, emphasizing how much our present political as well as social climate has been influenced by that war. As a framework for his study, he stresses the force of the Constitution in the United States and the tradition of sectional compromise basic to it, and in this light traces the controversies that threatened the Union from 1789 through the Reconstruction Era. He discusses in detail the background of anti-slavery sentiment in the North and the South, and the immediate provocations for the war. His succinct account of the conflict itself includes military strategies, summaries of battles, with maps, vivid portraits of the leaders, and an evaluation of Lincoln's significance as the preserver of the Union.
"Writers on the Civil War have a tendency to write endlessly and to give us year after year repeated examinations of the same events or biographies of the
same heroes. What many an average reader wants is a brief volume giving the main outlines of the conflict and assessing its larger significance in history. This is
exactly what Mr. Barker has done, and he has done it in such a way as to win himself a place in a select company of distinguished British interpreters of American
history and politics."
Richard Hofstadter
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