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035			_a(AEA)03C0E9E0406D4F7696BC9A9F0D9B180F
050			_aE 458 _b.Ay24 2005
100			_aAyers, Edward L., _d-1953 _9109997
245		0	_aWhat caused the Civil War? : _breflections on the South and Southern history / _cEdward L. Ayers.
260			_aNew York : _bW. W. Norton, _cc2005.
300			_a222 p. _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-209) and index.
520			_aAn extremely good writer, <Ayers> is well worth reading . . . on the South and Southern history.-Stephen Sears, Boston Globe The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportions-a system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at a federal Union, deep poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced development-have fed the imaginations of some of our most accomplished historians. Foremost in their ranks today is Edward L. Ayers, author of the award-winning and ongoing study of the Civil War in the heart of America, the Valley of the Shadow Project. In wide-ranging essays on the Civil War, the New South, and the twentieth-century South, Ayers turns over the rich soil of Southern life to explore the sources of the nation's and his own history. The title essay, original here, distills his vast research and offers a fresh perspective on the nation's central historical event. www.shelfari.com
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