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Product Description: When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted is that few urban historians have studied the war, even though cities hosted, enabled, and shaped Southern society as much as they did in the North...read more
By Michael Goldfield (foreword by)

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9780226300207 | 1 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 17, 2015), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness.

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Product Description: During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy. Damn Yankees! explores the proliferation of this rhetoric and demonstrates how the perpetual vilification of northerners became a weapon during the war, fostering hatred and resistance among the people of the Confederacy...read more

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9780807160589, titled "Damn Yankees!: Demonization & Defiance in the Confederate South" | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 18, 2015, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy.

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Photographs and text explore the anatomy and life cycle of trees, examining the different kinds of bark, seeds, and leaves, the commercial processing of trees to make lumber, the creatures that live in trees, and other aspects

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9780394896175 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains Daydreams and Nightmares: A Virginia Family Faces Secession and War | About this edition: Photographs and text explore the anatomy and life cycle of trees, examining the different kinds of bark, seeds, and leaves, the commercial processing of trees to make lumber, the creatures that live in trees, and other aspects
9780443034565, titled "Successful Private Practice: A Guide to Effective Medical Practice Management" | Churchill Livingstone, September 1, 1986, cover price $48.00 | also contains Successful Private Practice: A Guide to Effective Medical Practice Management

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9781465438478 | Dk Pub, September 1, 2015, cover price $9.99
9780443034480, titled "Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology" | Churchill Livingstone, September 1, 1986, cover price $21.50 | also contains Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology

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9780789465542 | Dk Pub, June 1, 2000, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Photographs and text explore the anatomy and life cycle of trees, examining the different kinds of bark, seeds, and leaves, the commercial processing of trees to make lumber, and the creatures that live in trees.
9780394996172 | Random House Childrens Books, January 1, 1989, cover price $20.99 | also contains Her Wild Hero | About this edition: Photographs and text explore the anatomy and life cycle of trees, examining the different kinds of bark, seeds, and leaves, the commercial processing of trees to make lumber, the creatures that live in trees, and other aspects

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9780833550163 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $28.35

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Product Description: The sesquicentennial of the American Civil War presents a unique opportunity to consider the motivation behind General Robert E. Lee’s efforts to defend the Confederacy against his once beloved United States. What will be learned from this book is that General Lee was following in the footsteps of his idol General George Washington...read more

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9780739187876 | Lexington Books, December 5, 2013, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: The sesquicentennial of the American Civil War presents a unique opportunity to consider the motivation behind General Robert E.

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9781498525381 | Lexington Books, October 14, 2015, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: The sesquicentennial of the American Civil War presents a unique opportunity to consider the motivation behind General Robert E.

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Product Description: The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one that has typically been told on a grand scale. In Daydreams and Nightmares, however, historian Brent Tarter shares the story of one Virginia family who found themselves in the middle of the secession debate and saw their world torn apart as the states chose sides and went to war...read more

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9780813937090, titled "Daydreams & Nightmares: A Virginia Family Faces Secession and War" | Univ of Virginia Pr, April 29, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one that has typically been told on a grand scale.
9780394896175, titled "Tree" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains Tree | About this edition: Photographs and text explore the anatomy and life cycle of trees, examining the different kinds of bark, seeds, and leaves, the commercial processing of trees to make lumber, the creatures that live in trees, and other aspects

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Product Description: The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American history...read more
By Gaines M. Foster (other contributor), Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. (editor) and James M. McPherson (foreword by)

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9780807156940 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 3, 2014, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath.

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Product Description: In the decades preceding the Civil War, the South struggled against widespread negative characterizations of its economy and society as it worked to match the North's infrastructure and level of development. Recognizing the need for regional reform, James Dunwoody Brownson (J...read more

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9780813144207 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, November 8, 2013, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In the decades preceding the Civil War, the South struggled against widespread negative characterizations of its economy and society as it worked to match the North's infrastructure and level of development.

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9781451616651 | Simon & Schuster, August 14, 2012, cover price $25.00

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9781451616668 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, July 16, 2013), cover price $16.00

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Product Description: Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union...read more

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9781421408958 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, March 20, 2013, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states.

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9781421408965 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, March 15, 2013, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809--1877), a principal architect of the South's "Lost Cause" mythology, remains one of the Civil War generation's most controversial intellectuals. In Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause, Terry A...read more

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9780807137246 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, June 10, 2011, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809--1877), a principal architect of the South's "Lost Cause" mythology, remains one of the Civil War generation's most controversial intellectuals.

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Product Description: Join Charleston historian Doug Bostick as he traces the political turmoil of 1860 and early 1861, when the firebrands of secession in Charleston were pushing the South to act together in a decisive way. The Union Is Dissolved chronicles the face-off between professor and student--Robert Anderson and Pierre G...read more

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9781596295735 | History Pr, August 30, 2009, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Join Charleston historian Doug Bostick as he traces the political turmoil of 1860 and early 1861, when the firebrands of secession in Charleston were pushing the South to act together in a decisive way.

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Product Description: The role the rural South and its plantation system played in the secession of the Confederate states is well established, but historian Frank Towers contends that we should look just as closely at the South’s urban centers. An exemplary feat of research, The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War sheds light on the dynamics of secession by concentrating on pivotal sociopolitical shifts in the South’s three largest cities―Baltimore, New Orleans, and St...read more

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9780813922973 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 1, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The role the rural South and its plantation system played in the secession of the Confederate states is well established, but historian Frank Towers contends that we should look just as closely at the South’s urban centers.

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9780813927879 | 1 edition (Univ of Virginia Pr, November 20, 2008), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: The role the rural South and its plantation system played in the secession of the Confederate states is well established, but historian Frank Towers contends that we should look just as closely at the South’s urban centers.

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The second in a two-volume history of the events that led to secession of the South and to the Civil War focuses on key events and personalities on the road to war, including the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and the violence in Bleeding Kansas, and reveals how a minority of Southern radicals drove the South out of the Union.

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9780195058154 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 16, 2007, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The second in a two-volume history of the events that led to secession of the South and to the Civil War focuses on key events and personalities on the road to war, including the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and the violence in Bleeding Kansas, and reveals how a minority of Southern radicals drove the South out of the Union.

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9780195370188, titled "The Road to Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861" | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 2008, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: The life of Henry Hotze encompasses the history of antebellum Mobile, Confederate military recruitment, Civil War diplomacy and international intrigue, and the development of a Darwinian-based effort to find scientific evidence for differences among human “races...read more

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9780817316204 | 1 edition (Univ of Alabama Pr, July 6, 2008), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The life of Henry Hotze encompasses the history of antebellum Mobile, Confederate military recruitment, Civil War diplomacy and international intrigue, and the development of a Darwinian-based effort to find scientific evidence for differences among human “races.

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Product Description: In early 1860 most Southern newspapers promoted Unionist sentiments for peace, but by 1861 they advocated secession and disunion, often calling for bloodshed. Using the editorials published in 196 newspapers during that pivotal year before the outbreak of the Civil War, Donald E...read more

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9780809327348 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, January 30, 2007, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In early 1860 most Southern newspapers promoted Unionist sentiments for peace, but by 1861 they advocated secession and disunion, often calling for bloodshed.

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Presents a selection of primary and secondary source articles featuring diverse opinions about the events leading up to the Civil War. (view table of contents)
By Jean Alicia Elster (editor)

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9780737713459 | Greenhaven Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $30.60 | About this edition: Presents a selection of primary and secondary source articles featuring diverse opinions about the events leading up to the Civil War.

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9780737713442 | Greenhaven Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $39.45 | About this edition: Presents a selection of primary and secondary source articles featuring diverse opinions about the events leading up to the Civil War.

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Product Description: Tuckend Boxed 6 cassettes Running time: 12 hoursAn authoritative and documented study of the mythology behind Civil War history, clearly exhibiting how the South was an independent country invaded, captured, and still occupied by a vicious aggressor.
By James Ronald Kennedy (narrator) and Walter Donald Kennedy (narrator)

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9781565540248 | Rep sub edition (Pelican Pub Co Inc, March 1, 1994), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Argues that the South was within its rights to secede and is still treated like a conquered land

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9781589800403 | Abridged edition (Pelican Pub Co Inc, May 1, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Tuckend Boxed 6 cassettes Running time: 12 hoursAn authoritative and documented study of the mythology behind Civil War history, clearly exhibiting how the South was an independent country invaded, captured, and still occupied by a vicious aggressor.

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9780813920368 | Univ of Virginia Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $32.50

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9780813921044 | Univ of Virginia Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $14.50

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Product Description: This title recounts the personal stories of how five Southerners came to their own individual decisions to abandon the Union. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781572491571 | White Mane Pub, December 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Until now few books on the Civil War era have adequately and fairly dealt with the Southern impulse for secession.

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9781572492103 | White Mane Pub, November 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This title recounts the personal stories of how five Southerners came to their own individual decisions to abandon the Union.

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Presents essays that examine the philosophical and socioeconomic issues of slavery, such as the impact that slavery had on secession, the nature of relations between master and slave, and the effect the Civil War had on race relations. (view table of contents)
By Lou Ferleger (editor) and Robert L. Paquette (editor)

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9780813919515 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Presents essays that examine the philosophical and socioeconomic issues of slavery, such as the impact that slavery had on secession, the nature of relations between master and slave, and the effect the Civil War had on race relations.

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9780813919522 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $38.50 | About this edition: Presents essays that examine the philosophical and socioeconomic issues of slavery, such as the impact that slavery had on secession, the nature of relations between master and slave, and the effect the Civil War had on race relations.

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Product Description: This compelling, highly readable book focuses on the men who shaped the events that led to secession and the Civil War. Secessionists tore at the bonds that bound Americans to one another and their government as they maligned Northerners and found sinister intent in federal policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780842028189 | Scholarly Resources Inc, April 1, 2000, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This compelling, highly readable book focuses on the men who shaped the events that led to secession and the Civil War.

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