书名：The Civil War: A History 美国内战：历史难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1090作者：Harry Hansen哈里·汉森出版社名称：SignetClassics出版时间：2010语种：英文ISBN：9780451531667商品尺寸：10.7 x3.5x 17.2 cm包装：简装页数：664

The Civil War: A History《美国内战史》全面记叙了美国内战的基本过程，探讨了长期存在的、让国家卷入战争的社会问题，并对战争年代的政治和联邦领导人丰富的个性进行了深入分析。 从萨姆特堡之战到林肯遇刺，这部内战概略传达了视觉、声音和塑造我们历史和民族意识的情感冲突，对将军、普通士兵、政客和平民进行了生动解说。 本版本为Signet Classics推出的简装便携全英文版原著，另外补充John Jakes所作的导论，Gary Gallagher博士的序言，有助于读者理解作品及作者创作背景。 From the firing on Fort Sumter to the shot that killed Abraham Lincoln, this fascinatingcompendiumof the Civil War conveys the sights, sounds and emotions of the conflict that shaped our history and our national consciousness. Here is the vivid and compelling commentary of generals, common soldiers, politicians and ordinary civilians from both sides of the conflict. Presented in one comprehensive,utterly engrossingvolume, thisis the Civil War as it really was—the forces and events that caused it, the soldiers and civilians who fought it, and the ideas and values that are its legacy today. With a New Introduction by John Jakes and a Foreword by Dr. Gary GallagherReview“A fact-packed review of the battles and leaders of the eighteen sixties…The political and historical background make the action meaningful.”—The New York Times Book Review“The last chapter about the Civil War is never likely to be written, but Harry Hansen produced a historical survey that has withstood the test of time. Here we have a fast-paced narrative that follows the Civil War’s military and political progression, rendered with a plainspoken prose that will appeal to general reader and educator alike.”—Morgan N. Knull, Editor,Civil War Book Review“Among the best one-volume histories of the Civil War.”—John Jakes

This fascinating work explores the longstanding social issues that plunged the nation into war, providing an in-depth analysis of the politics of the war years and of the colorful personalities of Federal and confederate leaders.

List of Maps Introduction Foreword 1The Historic Backgrounds of the Issues of Secession and Slavery 2The Political Crises: from the Dred Scott Decision to Secession 3 The Fall of Fort Sumter,April 14,1861 4 The Issues in Washington and Richmond in 1861 5Robert E. Lee and the Offer of the United StatesCommand 6The FirstBattleof BullRun,or Manassas 7Mason and Slidell: Confederate DiplomacyAbroad 8Du Pont’s Squadron at Port Royal 9TheBattle for Missouri 10The Capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson 11the Battle of Shiloh 12theMonitorand theMerrimack 13Capture of the Mississippi River Forts and New Orleans 14George B. McClellan and the Army ofthe Potomac 15General Pope and Second Bull Run (Manassas) 16McClellan Halts Lee at Antietam 17Jeb Stuart’s Chambersburg Raid 18 The Road to Emancipation 19Burnside and the Battle ofFredericksburg 20Chancellorsville 21The Vicksburg Campaign 22The Gettysburg Campaign 23Two Minutes to Immortality 24TheNational Election of 1864 25General Sherman’s Campaigns in Georgia 26Battles in the West: Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge 27The GreatLocomotive Chase 28The Raids of Morgan, Dahlgren, and Quantrill 29Farragut Is Lashed to the Rigging at Mobile Bay 30Battle of theKearsargeand theAlabama 31Wilderness and Spotsylvania 32From Spotsylvania to Cold Harbor 33EarlyThreatens Washington 34Fighting in the Shenandoah Valley 35Thomas Versus Hood inTennessee 36Cushing Destroys theAlbemarle 37Negro Troops in the Union Army 38Sherman’sMarch to the Sea 39Beauregard and Butler at Drewry’s 40 Grant Moves South of the James 41The Red River Expedition of Banks and Porter 42The Bombardment and Capture of FortFisher 43The Long Road to Appomattox 44Johnston’s Surrender to Sherman 45The Last Days of Abraham Lincoln Index The author has adopted, for the most part, the topicalmethod of carrying an action oracampaign to its conclusion inasingle chapter. This necessitates an occasional departure from the chronological record.

Harry Hansenwas born in Davenport, Iowa, and received a bachelor of philosophy degree from the University of Chicago. He served as a war correspondent for theChicago Daily Newsduring World War I, and was a correspondent at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Mr. Hansen served as literary editor of theChicago Daily News, the New York World, andtheNew York World Telegram. He wrote eleven books as well as numerous articles and essays, and lectured at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. A member of the Society of American Historians, he was the editor ofThe World Almanac.John Jakesbegan readingaboutthe Civil War in seventh grade, and six decades later, the war remains one of hisprincipalareas of interest. Jakes has published more than eighty books, the last eighteen historicals allNew York Timesbest-sellers.Several volumes of his KentFamily Chronicles deal with the war, as does theNorthand SouthTrilogy, whichWarner Bros, and David L. Wolper filmed as a trio of miniseries.Jakes holds degrees from DePauw and Ohio State universities, as well asfive honorary doctorates for his writing. He and his wife, Rachel, reside in Sarasota, Florida. Dr. Gary Gallagheris the John L. Nav III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He is also the author ofTheConfederate WarandLee and His Army in Confederate History.

Why the War Began The American Civil Warof 1861-1865 was aconflict between Northern and Southern citizens brought aboutby sharp differences on political and economic issues between the two sections. In the North it was known to the generation that fought it as the War of the Rebellion, this indicating the official view that it was a revolt against the government of the United States. This term has been falling into disuse as the study of Southern grievancesand Northerninflexibility has made the Southern position better understood. Southern historians began calling it theWar Between the States, thus emphasizing the Southern contention that the Constitution of the United States was a contract between states, from which a sovereign state could withdraw. But although regiments were recruited by states and carried state insignia, the warwas conducted by two federal regimes—the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, the latter dominating the military and economic life of the South, despite the protest ofsuch states as Georgia and South Carolina. The actual causes ofthe war extended far back inthehistory of the Republic and resulted from an accentuation of sectional grievances not resolved in nearly half acentury of negotiation. The two major issues that brought onthe war were the tight over state rights (or states’rights), which involved the right of secession from the Union of the states under the Constitution, and the extension of slavery to new states and territories. These long-range issues are discussed later in this chapter. The immediate provocation for secession of the states, which led to the war, was the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States in the fall of 1860, on a platform which denied the extension of slavery to new states and territories. By this time the controversy over slavery had. Become so intense, tempers were so inflamed, and extremists were so uncompromising that the basis for peaceful adjustment of differences was lost. South Carolina precipitated a break when, in a convention at Charleston, December 20, 1860, it adopted an ordinance of secession, repealing its 1788 ratification of the Constitution of the United States, and its governor proclaimed the act in effect onDecember 24, 1860.