American Civil War [6 Volumes] by Spencer C. Tucker (Editor)Call Number: Reference E468 .A5329 2013
ISBN: 9781851096770
Publication Date: 2013-09-30
This six-volume-encyclopedia set includes all significant battles and skirmishes; important figures, both civilian and military; weapons; government relations with Native Americans; and a plethora of social, political, cultural, military, and economic developments. The entries also address the many events that led to the conflict, the international diplomacy of the war, the rise of the Republican Party and the growing crisis and stalemate in American politics, slavery and its impact on the nation as a whole, the secession crisis, the emergence of the "total war" concept, and the complex challenges of the aftermath of the conflict.