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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Battle cry of freedom
    sub title: the Civil War era
  name:
    name part: McPherson, James M.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1988
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 904 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war--slavery--and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict.This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.
  note: James M. McPherson.
  note: Includes index.
  note: Bibliography: pages 865-882.
  note: In memory of Dr. Robert Wick, August 1998.
  note: Pulitzer Prize in History, 1989
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Campaigns
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
  subject:
    topic: American Civil War
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
    topic: Campagnes et batailles
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
  classification: E173 .O94 vol. 6
  classification: E470
  classification: 973.7/3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford history of the United States ; v. 6
  identifier: 0195038630 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780195038637 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 87011045
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 870402
    record change date: 20151007053610.0
    record identifier: in00000017564