American Civil Wars by Alan Taylor
A masterful history of the American Civil War and its reverberations across the continent by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
"Taylor…offers compelling new insights…[His] transnational approach reveals the often unnoticed connections between America’s war over slavery’s future and the concurrent battles for individual rights in Mexico and Canada." -- Amanda Brickell Bellows - The Wall Street Journal
"Taylor is a formidable historian and masterly writer. He briskly disposes of some persistent myths about the Civil War,…[and] as for anyone who believes that the current turbulence on the U.S.-Mexican border is an anomaly, they will be edified by Taylor’s account of how Texans attacked Mexico for offering freedom to runaway slaves." -- Thomas E Ricks - The New York Times Book Review
"American Civil Wars demonstrates, as no previous work has, the great political transformations sweeping all of North America during the middle of the nineteenth century. With a geographical frame embracing Canada and Mexico as well as the United States, Alan Taylor once again challenges and deepens our historical perspective." -- Steven Hahn, author of Illiberal America: A History
"A truly North American history of the defining political crises of the nineteenth century... A must-read for all Civil War aficionados." -- Manisha Sinha, author of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920
"With his trademark erudition, Alan Taylor illuminates the great conflicts that rocked Canada, Mexico, and the United States. He shows how these foundational national struggles, while unique, arose from similar tensions over state and national power and ended in greater federal authority. " -- Andrés Reséndez, author of The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
"Taylor is a formidable historian and masterly writer. He briskly disposes of some persistent myths about the Civil War,…[and] as for anyone who believes that the current turbulence on the U.S.-Mexican border is an anomaly, they will be edified by Taylor’s account of how Texans attacked Mexico for offering freedom to runaway slaves." -- Thomas E Ricks - The New York Times Book Review
"American Civil Wars demonstrates, as no previous work has, the great political transformations sweeping all of North America during the middle of the nineteenth century. With a geographical frame embracing Canada and Mexico as well as the United States, Alan Taylor once again challenges and deepens our historical perspective." -- Steven Hahn, author of Illiberal America: A History
"A truly North American history of the defining political crises of the nineteenth century... A must-read for all Civil War aficionados." -- Manisha Sinha, author of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920
"With his trademark erudition, Alan Taylor illuminates the great conflicts that rocked Canada, Mexico, and the United States. He shows how these foundational national struggles, while unique, arose from similar tensions over state and national power and ended in greater federal authority. " -- Andrés Reséndez, author of The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Alan Taylor, one of our leading historians, is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history. His many books include American Revolutions, the standard account, and, most recently, American Civil Wars. He is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781324110491 |
| ISBN 10 | 132411049X |
| Title | American Civil Wars |
| Author | Alan Taylor |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2025-07-11 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
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