Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
ISBN-10
0674064216
ISBN-13
9780674064218
Category
History
Pages
456
Language
English
Published
2012-05-07
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Stephanie McCurry

Description

Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners’ national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued. Although Southern statesmen and generals had built the most powerful slave regime in the Western world, they had excluded the majority of their own people—white women and slaves—and thereby sowed the seeds of their demise.

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