William W. Freehling, Author . Oxford Univ. $35 (624p) ISBN 978-0-19-505815-4
Freehling follows up his highly praised Secessionists at Bay, 1776– 1854
in this exhaustive, scholarly look at the collisions between the lofty American goals of freedom and democracy and the strong desire of Southern slave owners and their...
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William W. Freehling, Author Oxford University Press, USA $37.5 (656p) ISBN 978-0-19-505814-7
This major work of scholarship by the author of Prelude to the Civil War offers an intimate look at the Old South and describes how the slavery issue led to successive collisions between ``private despotism and public democracy.'' The book also...
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William W. Freehling, Author Oxford University Press, USA $45 (336p) ISBN 978-0-19-508807-6
Bancroft Prize-winning historian Freehling ( Prelude to Civil War ) offers a thoughtful collection of essays--some new, some thoroughly revised--reflecting 30 years of thoughts on the nature of slavery and the causes of the Civil War. Particularly...
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William W. Freehling, Author Oxford University Press, USA $30 (256p) ISBN 978-0-19-513027-0
Historians have offered many different explanations for the North's triumph over the South during the Civil War. In this work, the University of Kentucky's Freehling (The Road to Disunion) dissects the role played by a failure of border states (Maryl
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