LIBROS DEL AUTOR: eric h walther

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  • William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War
    Eric H. Walther / Eric HWalther
    IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814–63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew up believing that abolitionists w...
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    63,36 €

  • Shattering of the Union
    Eric H Walther / Eric H. Walther / Eric HWalther
    The 1850s offered the last remotely feasible chance for the United States to steer clear of Civil War. Yet fundamental differences between North and South about slavery and the meaning of freedom caused political conflicts to erupt again and again throughout the decade as the country lurched toward secession and war. The Shattering of the Union is a concise, readable analysis a...
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    57,03 €

  • The Fire-Eaters
    Eric H. Walther
    Walther examines the lives of nine of the most prominent 'fire-eaters' (southerns who were staunch and unyielding advocates of the secession): Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, William Lowndes Yancey, John Anthony Quitman, Robert Barnewll Rhett, Laurence M. Keitt, Louis T. Wigfall, James D. B. DeBow, Edmund Ruffin, and William Porcher Miles. ...
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    37,80 €