Beschreibung:
William Freehling is Singletary Professor of the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. His first book, Prelude to Civil War, won both an Allan Nevins and a Bancroft Prize and is recognized as one of the most significant studies of the Civil War era published in the past three decades.
In the first volume of his long-awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunion, eminent historian William W. Freehling offers a sweeping political and social history of the antebellum South from 1776-1854.