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Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West
Virginia (E Scharff
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Description for Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West
Hardback. Brings together two subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in the Civil War, and the story of the westward expansion of the US. This work embraces East and West, as well as North and South, as the US observes the 2015 sesquicentennial commemoration of the end of the Civil War. Editor(s): Scharff, Virginia. Num Pages: 264 pages, 17 color plates, 67 b/w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 186 x 23. Weight in Grams: 716.
Empire and Liberty brings together two epic subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in the Civil War, and the story of the westward expansion of the United States. Virginia Scharff and the contributors to this volume show how the West shaped the conflict over slavery and how slavery shaped the West, in the process defining American ideals about freedom and influencing battles over race, property, and citizenship. This innovative work embraces East and West, as well as North and South, as the United States observes the 2015 sesquicentennial commemoration ... Read more
Empire and Liberty brings together two epic subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in the Civil War, and the story of the westward expansion of the United States. Virginia Scharff and the contributors to this volume show how the West shaped the conflict over slavery and how slavery shaped the West, in the process defining American ideals about freedom and influencing battles over race, property, and citizenship. This innovative work embraces East and West, as well as North and South, as the United States observes the 2015 sesquicentennial commemoration ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
716g
Number of Pages
247
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520281264
SKU
V9780520281264
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About Virginia (E Scharff
Virginia Scharff is Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico. She is the co-curator (with Carolyn Brucken) of the "Empire and Liberty" exhibition at the Autry National Center, where she serves as Women of the West Chair. Her previous works include Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West; ... Read more
Reviews for Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West
"A wide-ranging, valuable addition to the literature on the American West that reveals the truly continental nature of one of America's most defining struggles." Publishers Weekly "A signal contribution to the understanding of some central themes in US history ... An important model for a new, broader use of material objects in understanding the country's past."
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