Although much has been written about the ways in which Confederate politics affected the course of the Civil War, George Rable is the first historian to investigate Confederate political culture in its own right. Focusing on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology, Rable reveals how southerners attempted to purify the political process and avoid what they saw as the evils of parties and partisanship. According to Rable, secession marked the beginning of a revolution against politics, in which the Confederacy's founding fathers saw themselves as the true heirs of the American Revolution. Nevertheless, factionalism developed as the war dragged on, with Confederate nationalists emphasizing political unity and support for President Jefferson Davis's administration and libertarian dissenters warning of the dangers of a centralized Confederate government. Both sides claimed to be the legitimate defenders of a genuine southern republicanism and of Confederate nationalism, and the conflict between them carried over from the strictly political sphere to matters of military strategy, civil religion, and education. Rable concludes that despite the war's outcome, the Confederacy's antipolitical legacy had a profound impact on southern politics.
At Northwestern, Eric Sundquist provided a one-year leave from teaching that jumpstarted research for the book; at Penn, Rebecca Bushnell provided another that allowed me to finish the writing. Amy Gutmann, President of the University ...
From award-winning Civil War historian George C. Rable, Damn Yankees! is the first comprehensive study of anti-Union speech and writing, the ways these words shaped perceptions of and events in the war, and the rhetoric’s enduring legacy ...
Pearson, Henry Greenleaf. The Life of John A. Andrew: Governor of Massachusetts, 1861–1865. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904. Pennypacker, Isaac Rusling. General Meade. New York: Appleton, 1901. Pierrepont, Alice V. D. Reuben ...
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The Confederate Experience Reader provides students and professors with the essential materials needed to understand and appreciate the major issues confronting the Southern Republic's brief existence during the American Civil...
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'DeRosa does not focus simply upon the Civil War, but provides deep background....This is a work of interest to all serious students of American constitutional history and philosophy.
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"Colossal Ambitions explores how leading Confederate thinkers envisioned their postwar nation -- its relationship with the United States, its place in the Americas, and its role in the global order.
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