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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873

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I Index Overall Rating

Readers

97/100

Critics

44/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Alan Taylor

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company

Date:

May 21, 2024

A history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the continent by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.

What The Reviewers Say

Thomas E. Ricks,
The New York Times Book Review
I don’t think this book makes us look at the Civil War in a new way, but Taylor is persuasive in his assertion that the American conflict shaped the entire continent.
Amanda Brickell Bellows,
The Wall Street Journal
Mr. Taylor’s 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..

Kirkus
An authoritative, comprehensive history.

Publishers Weekly
This penetrating study is a must for Civil War history buffs..