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005			20240726105411.0
008			120719s2011 maua ob 001 0 eng d
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050	0	4	_aE468 _b.U556 2011
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aGallagher, Gary W. _e1
245	1	0	_aThe Union War /Gary W. Gallagher.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2011.
300			_a1 online resource (215 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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504			_a2
505	0	0	_aThe grand review -- _tUnion -- _tEmancipation -- _tThe armies -- _tAffirmation.
520	0		_aEven one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War, by its division, its bloodshed, and its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as the author shows in this revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment. In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters, diaries, and documents, he demonstrates that what motivated the North to go to war and persist in an increasingly bloody effort was primarily preservation of the Union. Devotion to the Union bonded nineteenth-century Americans in the North and West against a slaveholding aristocracy in the South and a Europe that seemed destined for oligarchy. Northerners believed they were fighting to save the republic, and with it the world's best hope for democracy. Once we understand the centrality of union, we can in turn appreciate the force that made northern victory possible: the citizen-soldier. The author reveals how the massive volunteer army of the North fought to confirm American exceptionalism by salvaging the Union. Contemporary concerns have distorted the reality of nineteenth-century Americans, who embraced emancipation primarily to punish secessionists and remove slavery as a future threat to union goals that emerged in the process of war. As the book recovers why and how the Civil War was fought, we gain a more honest understanding of why and how it was won.
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650		0	_aPolitical culture _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aCulture and History of non-European Territories.
650		4	_aGlobal History.
650		4	_aHistory.
650		4	_aPolitical culture _zUnited States _vHistory _y19th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=597465&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell