Civil War in the Making, 1815-1860 / Edition 1

by Avery O. Craven

Overview

“American scholarship is richer for this unique exercise. More important—the great community, . . . one again sorely beset by unsettled problems of sectional rivalry and world tension, can read this book with great profit. Too few historians put their talents at the disposal of society so effectively.” —American Historical Review

“A brilliant, straightforward summary of the background of America’s favorite armchair war. So deceptively simple is [Craven’s] exposition that the solid worth of the book sneaks up on the reader when, having finished it, he realizes that the brief volume may be short on detail but is complete as a well-considered, authoritative statement of history.”—Chicago Tribune

“Never has he—or anyone else—analyzed the growing sectional conflict in more graphic or understandable terms than in the present volume.”—Civil War History

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807101315
Publisher:	Louisiana State University Press
Publication date:	11/01/1968
Series:	Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Avery O. Craven was one of our most distinguished historians of the South and taught for many years at the University of Chicago. He was the author of many books, including The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848-1861 (Volume VI of A History of the South), and Edmund Ruffin, Southerner.