Confederate Reckoning Power and Politics in the Civil War South

Name: Confederate Reckoning Power and Politics in the Civil War South
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ISBN: 9780674064218

ISBN-10: 0674064216

ISBN-13: 9780674064218

Edition: 2010

Authors: Stephanie McCurry

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The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, 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.Wartime scarcity of food, labor, and…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.17" long x 1.29" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Prologue: The Confederate Project



Who Are the People?



The Brothers' War



Antigone's Claim



Soldiers' Wives and the Politics of Subsistence



Women Numerous and Armed



"Amor Patriae"



"Our Open Enemies"



The Fall


Epilogue: Confederate Reckoning


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index