- Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House Value Publishing (Dec 12 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0517225190
- ISBN-13: 978-0517225196
- Product Dimensions: 28.4 x 22.9 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #793,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An official photographer of the Civil War presents more than seven hundred extraordinary photographs, accompanied by a lively text that recounts the history of the war, its causes, battles, personalities, and effects.
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A Wealth of Information and Photos, Feb 21 2003
By Deborah MacGillivray "Author," - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Matthew Brady Illustrated History Of Ci (Hardcover)
Any buff of the US Civil War knows there is a BIG question on just how much Matthew Brandy actually shot with his camera. There is little doubt he often took credit for those working under him, and showed a bent at making the Brady name linger in history as the first to photograph a war from beginning to end. But that question pushed aside, forget who took what pictures, unless arguing that particular point, and simply sit back and get blown away by the sheer numbers of photos! Over 500 pages (often with half a dozen or more photos per page) of portraits, landscapes and even some illustrations in colour plates, this is a wonderful companion to the writings of Bruce Catton or Henry Steele Commanger. Instead of just reading about the people and places that were the stage of the War Between the States, see them! Pictures of People, informal and formal portraits, pictures of encampments, riverboats, fortifications, bridges, of troops and the bloody aftermath of war. Brady and his contemporaries were often accused of 'stage' pictures, but it does not take away the power to move you. It was sad, 'the battles lost' often depicted Confederate dead, showing a distinct bias to further to belief the Union was invincible and the South doomed.
Regardless of the taint or copyright/ownership of the period, regardless of the yellow journalism of staging the photos, you cannot deny the value to casual historians, to writer of the period or to people wishes to see these places and the people that created some of the bloodies battles in history.
A wonderful collection.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Newer ideas about Slavery's role, April 14 2012
By Brian H. Clague - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mathew Brady's Illustrated History of the Civil War with His War Photographs and Paintings by Military Artists (Paperback)
I always enjoy collecting photos of the civil war, wherever they may be found.This book combines them to a great degree. Lossing's book is told from his personal perspective using first or second hand knowledge, acquired during his lifetime. This in itself is useful information but can be limited.We should rememeber that in his day open debates by politicians were attened by large audiences and widely covered ver batim in the press. So he could experience much first hand. He is a Union biased writer, of course.But because the story comes so soon after the war it cannot contain all of the authentic records which would make it more reliable. In that regard it needs to be taken with a grain of salt. I was intruiqed by two observations made by Lossing which have lead to further investigation. The first was that the legislators in England were ending slavery there and in the colonies by legislation,and that that legislation may have played a role in the southern colonists' desire to be free from England.It gives them as much a merchantile reason as the reasons offered by New Englanders. Was it a real role? That is a question I have not asked before now. A book does exist on the very subject by two law professors. The second suggestion is that the Southern sympathizers worked in tandem for 20 years to seperate the states from the Union becasue they viewed northerners as both boors and certainbly beneath them, and also becasue they wished that the consitutional guarantees of protection of slavery were eternal and should be preserved. I find that collusion theory of 20 years hard to accept . However, Lossing does quote from many southern legislative meetings to give a real sense of the fervor of the "hotheads" and their zeal to inflame their less powerful southen countrymen towards rebellion, or seperation- if you will. I believe there is good evidence that the south was not uniform in its opinion of the need for succession.Take West Virginia as a n example, and there are many others. Lessing's point that the population never directly voted for succession is a powerful argument to that end. I did not read the narratives of the war period itself, as this history is covered by so many other historians who have the advantage hindsight and better documentation on their side.Overall, there is much to thinking about in his story, a commercial enterprise for sure. The mass of photos are well presented..
3.0 out of 5 stars
No Index, Aug 13 2010
By Matthew Snihur - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Matthew Brady's Illustrated History of the Civil War (Hardcover)
The most annoying this about this collection is the lack of index, which turned out to be incredibly annoying.
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