books by Drew Gilpin Faust     books:     Drew Gilpin Faust      This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Drew Gilpin Faust Knopf, 2008 Excellent historical reference book on the Civil War This is a very serious, thorough, well researched book, centered mainly on the aftermath of the Civil War in the United States. It is an enlightening book for the serious student of civil war history. It is not for the fainthearted, or those easily depressed by ...             This Republic of Suffering: Death and The American Civil War Gilpin Faust, Drew Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008 During the Civil War 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. The equivalent proportion of todays population would be six million. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual.             Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South (The Walter Lynwood Fleming ... Drew Gilpin Faust Louisiana State University Press, 1990 Interesting but too anecdotal This little book is interesting, yet it seems to be hampered by its short format. As a result, the author does not seem wholly successful in describing a Confederate national consciousness . Basically, she argues that notions of evangelicalism, republicanism, and ...             James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (Southern Biography Series) Drew Gilpin Faust Louisiana State University Press, 1985 A good read about a not nice guy Hammond is not a nice guy. He married for money, was not a great father, and campagined for elected office at time when no one else did and against the 'party' candidate to boot. Most interesting of all was his commitment to the Confederate cause but resistance to ...             The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860 (Library of Southern ... Louisiana State University Press, 1981 NOT to Be Read for Pleasure! The seven essays collected in this book, written by Southerners between 1830 and 1860, are unpalatable pompous nonsense for any modern reader except perhaps a "stars-and-bars" Red State neo-confederate. All seven are self-righteous apologies for slavery, on the basis ...             Macaria: Or, Altars of Sacrifice (Library of Southern Civilization) Augusta Jane Evans Louisiana State University Press, 1992 Valueable Example of Confederate Propaganda When I discovered Drew Gilpin Faust's edition of Augusta evans's novel, _Macaria; or Altars of Sacrifice_ while working on a college research paper, I was excited to find an example of the writing of a woman I had read brief mentions of in various books and an example ...             A Woman's War: Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate Legacy (The Museum of the Confederacy) John M. Coski, Drew Gilpin Faust, ... University of Virginia Press, 1997 A good guide for Civil War and Women's History Buffs Although I wished it would have a bit more depth, A Women's War has some interesting essays on what happened to women in the south before and after the civil war whether poor, white, slaves, free slaves, nurses, plantation runners etc. The best article is Majorie ...             Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (The Fred W. Morrison Series ... Drew Gilpin Faust The University of North Carolina Press, 2004 Southern Elite White Women's World Turned Upside Down Mothers of Invention is a book by Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust (historian), who was appointed President of Harvard University in February 2007. This book is an excellent adjunct to any college level class on the Civil War period. Faust researched the letters, diaries and ...             The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South (The Walter Lynwood ... Drew Gilpin Faust Louisiana State University Press, 1990             Mothers of Invention Drew Gilpin Faust Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2004          products you might be interested in search for books antebellum, civilization, confederacy, confederate, nationalism, slaveholding      toavi.com    web we recommend Excellent historical reference book on the Civil War randomly chosen VHS: Iron Eagle