Civil category: 10105 books
by John Lockwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This is a memoir written by a Union soldier from New York who fought in the Civil War, most notably at the Battle of Gettysburg. Without question, the most famous battle of the American Civil War took place outside of the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which happened to be a transportation...
by Thomas E. Griess
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
This campaign-by-campaign account of the Civil War examines the economic, social, political, and military aspects of this turbulent period.
Galveston and the Civil War
An Island City in the Maelstrom
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
On the eve of the Civil War, Galveston was a jewel of the Gulf Coast--a booming city with a fine natural harbor and all the commerce, culture and improvements that attended it. Galveston was also home to the largest slave market west of New Orleans and a hotbed of secessionist sentiment. Once the war...
The Slaveholding Crisis
Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In December 1860, South Carolinians voted to abandon the Union, sparking the deadliest war in American history. Led by a proslavery movement that viewed Abraham Lincoln’s place at the helm of the federal government as a real and present danger to the security of the South, southerners—both slaveholders...
The Timberclads in the Civil War
The Lexington, Conestoga and Tyler on the Western Waters
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
In the most detailed history ever of Union warships on the western waters of the Civil War, the author recounts the exploits of the timberclad ships Lexington, Tyler, and Conestoga. Converted to warships from commercial steamboats at the beginning of the conflict, the three formed the core of the...
by Carol Berkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken...
The Three Paths of Justice
Court Proceedings, Arbitration, and Mediation in England
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This revised second edition takes account of developments in the field of dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration. The book presents a concise account of the English system of civil litigation, covering court proceedings in England and Wales. It is an original and important study of...
Proceedings of the 4th Congrès International de Géotechnique - Ouvrages -Structures
CIGOS 2017, 26-27 October, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This proceedings volume for the 4th international conference CIGOS 2017 (Congrès International de Géotechnique - Ouvrages - Structures) presents novel technologies, solutions and research advances, making it an excellent guide in civil engineering for researchers, students, and professional engineers...
by Arnold Verruijt
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This textbook offers a superb introduction to theoretical and practical soil mechanics. Special attention is given to the risks of failure in civil engineering, and themes covered include stresses in soils, groundwater flow, consolidation, testing of soils, and stability of slopes.
Readers...
Unfinished Business
Racial Equality in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Michael J. Klarman, author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History, is one of the leading authorities on the history of civil rights law in the United States. In Unfinished Business, he illuminates the course of racial equality in America, revealing...
Defining the Struggle
National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Since its founding in 1910--the same year as another national organization devoted to the economic and social welfare aspects of race advancement, the National Urban League--the NAACP has been viewed as the vanguard national civil rights organization in American history. But these two flagship institutions...
by Paul J. Springer
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
This illuminating reference work contains excerpts from roughly 100 individual pieces of propaganda generated during the American Civil War in the North and the South, as well as contextual analysis to assist readers in understanding its utility, importance, and effect. It includes written arguments,...
Reckoning with Race
America's Failure
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Reckoning with Race confronts America's most intractable problem—race. The book outlines in a provocative, novel manner American racial issues from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. It explodes myths about the South as America's exclusive racial scapegoat. The book moves to...
National Geographic's The Civil War
The Conflict That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, this special ebook from National Geographic Magazine covers one of the most significant periods in the history of the United States. Full of maps, information graphics, timelines, and archival photographs to illuminate and educate,...