Bøker av Paul D. Escott

In April 1865 Abraham Lincoln announced his support for voting rights for at least some of the newly freed enslaved people. Paul Escott takes this milestone as an opportunity to explore popular sentiment in the North on this issue and to examine the vigorous efforts of Black leaders to organise, demand, and work for their equal rights as citizens.

Spain and the United States both experienced extremely bloody and divisive civil wars that left social and emotional wounds, many of which still endure today. In Uncommonly Savage, award-winning historian Paul Escott considers the impact of internecine violence on memory and ideology, politics, and process of reconciliation.

In this timely and thoughtful book, Paul D. Escott surveys the current state of Civil War studies and explores the latest developments in research and interpretation.

Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives

Focuses on the challenge that the South's widespread political ideals presented to Jefferson Davis and on the way growing class resentments among citizens in the countryside affected the war effort. The book offers a fresh look at the pivotal role that strong leadership plays in the establishment of a new nation.

A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and the inherent contradictions that undermined that effort.

Part of a series which examines the complex relationship between the US government, the US military, and the civilian population in wartime and peacetime, this work analyzes the militarization of life in the Confederacy. It probes the relationships between military commanders, legislators, and Jefferson Davis and his administration.

Based on a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents, publications of citizens' organizations, letters, diaries, and other sources, this title examines the attitudes and actions of Northerners and Southerners regarding the future of African Americans after the end of slavery.