Ordeal by Fire
Subtitle: the Civil War and Reconstruction
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9780077430351
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The Setting of Conflict; title: Part One: The Coming of War.; title: Chapter One: American Modernization, 1800-1860; title: Chapter Two: The Antebellum South; title: Chapter Three: The Ideological Conflict over Slavery; title: Chapter Four: Texas, Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850; title: Chapter Five: Filibusters, Fugitives, and Nativists; title: Chapter Six: Kansas and the Rise of the Republican Party; title: Chapter Seven: The Deepening Crisis, 1857-1859; title: Chapter Eight: The Critical Year, 1859-1860; title: Chapter Nine: Secession and the Coming of War; title: Part Two: The Civil War.; title: Chapter Ten: A Brothers' War: The Upper South; title: Chapter Eleven: Mobilizing for War; title: Chapter Twelve: The Balance Sheet of War; title: Chapter Thirteen: The War at Home and Abroad; title: Chapter Fourteen: The Springtime of Northern Hope; title: Chapter Fifteen: Jackson and Lee Strike Back; title: Chapter Sixteen: Slavery and the War: Northern Politics, 1861-1862; title: Chapter Seventeen: The First Turning Point: Antietam and Emancipation; title: Chapter Eighteen: The Winter of Northern Discontent; title: Chapter Nineteen: The Second Turning Point: Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga; title: Chapter Twenty: War Issues and Politics in 1863; title: Chapter Twenty-One: Behind the Lines; title: Chapter Twenty-Two: Wartime Reconstruction and the Freedpeople; title: Chapter Twenty-Three: Military Stalemate, 1864; title: Chapter Twenty-Four: The Third Turning Point: The Election of 1864; title: Chapter Twenty-Five: The End of the Confederacy; title: Part Three: Reconstruction.; title: Chapter Twenty-Six: The Problems of Peace; title: Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Origins of "Radical Reconstruction"; title: Chapter Twenty-Eight: Reconstruction and the Crisis of Impeachment; title: Chapter Twenty-Nine: The First Grant Administration; title: Chapter Thirty: The Making of the New Regime in the South, 1869-1872; title: Chapter Thirty-One: Social and Economic Reconstruction; title: Chapter Thirty-Two: The Retreat from Reconstruction; title: Chapter Thirty-Three: The New South; title: Epilogue