Christopher J Olsen: 2 books
Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi
Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000
This groundbreaking study of the politics of secession combines traditional political history with current work in anthropology and gender and ritual studies. Christopher J. Olsen has drawn on local election returns, rural newspapers, manuscripts, and numerous county records to sketch a new picture...
The American Civil War
A Hands-on History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Succinct, with a brace of original documents following each chapter, Christopher J. Olsen's The American Civil War is the ideal introduction to American history's most famous, and infamous, chapter. Covering events from 1850 and the mounting political pressures to split the Union into opposing sections,...