The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War - The Eve of War - Couverture rigide

Ayers, Edward L.; Rubin, Anne S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393046044 ISBN 13 : 9780393046045

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2000

Synopsis

An exciting, ground-level view of the Civil War through the innovative use of book, CD-ROM, and the World Wide Web, created by an award-winning historian. Two communities in America's Great Valley --Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and Augusta County, Virginia --separated by only a few hundred miles, share much in their politics and ways of life. Yet they emerge on opposing sides of a war in which they zealously send their sons to fight and die. Here we see a Civil War that is not the inevitable conflict of rival civilizations, but a human drama, immediate, particular, engrossing. This is history as lived experience, presented in a beautifully designed digital archive of letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, military records, maps, images, and music. With cutting-edge technology that makes full use of both CD-ROM and the Web, Valley of the Shadow allows us all --from beginners to buffs to experts --to navigate the past in ways not possible before. Whether your interests are in the Civil War, Southern history, military history, African-American history, or biography, you can explore them to the fullest here. The CD runs on both Macintosh and Windows platforms.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward L. Ayers, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, has won the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes for his innovative histories of Civil War America. He is president emeritus of the University of Richmond, where he is executive director of New American History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393046044
• ISBN 13: 9780393046045
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible