Confederate Republic A Revolution Against Politics

Name: Confederate Republic A Revolution Against Politics
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ISBN: 9780807858189

ISBN-10: 0807858188

ISBN-13: 9780807858189

Edition: 2007

Authors: George C. Rable

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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…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English

George C. Rable holds the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. He is author of Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism, The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics, and Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!, which won the Lincoln Prize.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Old South A Political Culture in Crisis



Through A Glass Darkly Secession and the Future Of Southern Politics



The Crisis of Southern Constitutionalism



Establishing Political Legitimacy



A New Political Universe



Origins Of Political Crisis



Desperate Times Desperate Measures Desperate Politics



Internal Stresses of War



The Two Political Cultures



Spring and Summer Of Discontent



The Elections Of 1863 and Political Fragmentation



Factious Politics



Principle, Power Politics, and Peace



National Identity The Political Cultures And War's End


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index