Confederate States of America What Might Have Been

Name: Confederate States of America What Might Have Been
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ISBN: 9780393329117

ISBN-10: 0393329119

ISBN-13: 9780393329117

Edition: 2006

Authors: Roger L. Ransom

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"Provocative and compelling[a] wild ride through Civil War history."Library Journal What if Lee had avoided defeat at Gettysburg? What if a military stalemate had developed, coupled with growing antiwar sentiment? What if Lincoln had been defeated in the 1864 election and Great Britain had recognized the Confederacy? What would have been the careers of an independent Confederate States of America and a defeated United States? "No historian has thought through such 'what if' questions as seriously as Roger Ransom," says the Washington Post Book World. A master of historical analysis, Roger L. Ransom follows the consequences of the "what if" scenario over an extended period of time,…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Roger L. Ransom is professor of history and economics at the University of California, Riverside. He is co-author of the groundbreaking work One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation.



List of Maps, Figures, and Tables


Preface


Prologue: What If?: The Historian's Favorite Secret Question



Conflicting Visions: Was the Civil War Inevitable?



The Southern Gamble: Could the South Have Won?



Against All Odds: "The Anatomy of a Southern Victory



The King Is Dead, Long Live the King: The Future of the Slave South



What Might Have Been: The Civil War and the "Whole Family of Man"


Epilogue: The End of the Beginning


Appendices



Measuring Casualties in the Civil War



The Costs of Emancipation in 1880



The Constitution of the Confederate States of America


Notes


Bibliography


Index