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The Civil War: A Concise History
One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The Civil War: A Concise History offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic ef...more
Hardcover, 118 pages
Published
February 10th 2011
by Oxford University Press
(first published January 13th 2011)
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Masur is a well-respected cultural historian whose breadth of interests in American Studies is really impressive. This book is as advertised; it is a concise history of the ACW.
What the title does not tell you is that the book has a nicely done cultural history slant. It recounts, but it does not focus all it attention, on the battles in the ACW. Context is important to Masur, as it is to all cultural historians. He attempts, and usually succeeds, in placing each battle in its proper place amid...more
What the title does not tell you is that the book has a nicely done cultural history slant. It recounts, but it does not focus all it attention, on the battles in the ACW. Context is important to Masur, as it is to all cultural historians. He attempts, and usually succeeds, in placing each battle in its proper place amid...more
This book was exactly as advertised, a concise (95 pages!) history of the civil war. I couldn't believe someone managed to lay out the motivations, major events and important quotes in that little space. I (and everyone else in my high school) read Masur's earlier book (1831: Year of Eclipse), and I really didn't like it. I found it boring and the premise contrived so I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did.
Masur focuses on the cultural and political aspects of the war, and only barel...more
Masur focuses on the cultural and political aspects of the war, and only barel...more
Not bad. Obviously a book of such a concise nature would gloss over what I'm sure are a lot of pertinent details about the Civil War, but for the most part this was a great, concise way to learn what happened on the surface. I've also read another of Masur's books for another course, and he is an engaging-enough author that, like his other book, I never felt stifled by the dryness of the topic.
Jun 09, 2011
Dianne
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
those interested in American history
Recommended to Dianne by:
magazine article
Shelves:
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This book was exactly as stated, a concise history. I appreciated, however, that the book spent less time on battles and battle strategy and more time on the cultural and political events that led to war as well as how the perception of the war changed over time and success/failure in battle.
For a class. Read it all in one day. A bit dry, but it hits everything important and throws in some quotes along the way.
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