The Civil War in America Author:Alan Barker In this compact, complete, and lucid volume, a distinguished British historian pinpoints both the conflicts in political theory and the social issues that exploded into the Civil War, emphasizing how much our present political as well as social climate has been influenced by that war. As a framwork for his study, he stresses the force of the Con... more »stitution in the United states and the tradition of sectional compromise basic to it, and in this light traces the controversies that threatened the Union from 1789 through the Reconstruction Era. He discusses in detail the background of anti-slavery sentiment in the North and the South, and the immediate provcations for the war. His succinct account of the conflict itself includes military strategies, summaries of battles, with maps, vivid portraits of the leaders, and an evulation of Lincoln's significance as the preserver of the Union.« less