Starving the South How the North Won the Civil War

Name: Starving the South How the North Won the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780312601812

ISBN-10: 0312601816

ISBN-13: 9780312601812

Edition: 2011

Authors: Andrew F. Smith

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A historian's new look at how Union blockades brought about the defeat of a hungry ConfederacyIn April 1861, Lincoln ordered a blockade of Southern ports used by the Confederacy for cotton and tobacco exporting as well as for the importation of food. The Army of the Confederacy grew thin while Union dinner tables groaned and Northern canning operations kept Grant's army strong. InStarving the South,Andrew Smith takes a gastronomical look at the war's outcome and legacy. While the war split the country in a way that still affects race and politics today, it also affected the way we eat: It transformed local markets into nationalized food suppliers, forced the development of a Northern…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 4/12/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.48" wide x 9.40" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Prologue



Lincoln's Humbug of a Blockade



Scarcity and Hunger



Bread Riots



Abundance and Organization



Gibraltar of the Mississippi



Traders or Traitors?



The Confederacy's Breadbasket



Giving Thanks and No Thanks



Hard War



Capital Hunger


Epilogue


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index