Fighting with the Past Fiona Walton Ha-Joon Chang

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Fighting with the Past Fiona Walton Ha-Joon ChangCivil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, nineteenth century Americans were especially conversant with narratives of the English Civil Wars of the 1600s. Northerners and Southerners alike drew from histories of the English past to make sense of their own conflict, interpreting the events of the