The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union
- ISBN-10
- 0252062744
- ISBN-13
- 9780252062742
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 277
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1965
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Author
- George M. Fredrickson
Description
'The Inner Civil War', first published more than twenty-five years ago, is a classic that has influenced historians' views of the Civil War and American intellectual change in the nineteenth century. This edition includes a new preface in which the author demonstrates the continuing relevance of the work and updates its interpretations.
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