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A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become "well adjusted" and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was necessary for her survival. During the 1960s,...
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Durante la Guerra de Secesión de Estados Unidos, más de seiscientos mil soldados perdieron la vida, una carnicería sin precedentes que, en términos actuales, equivaldría a seis millones de personas. La escalofriante escala de mortandad y la devastación fue tal que no solo afectó a la existencia de centenares de miles de individuos, sino que tuvo un impacto profundísimo en la vida y la psique colectiva de la nación. En el monumental y multipremiado...
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When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain.
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English
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When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Gilpin Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain. In...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation.
An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would...
An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would...