Confederate reckoning : power and politics in the Civil War South / Stephanie McCurry.
Confederate reckoning : power and politics in the Civil War South / Stephanie McCurry.
Confederate reckoning : power and politics in the Civil War South / Stephanie McCurry.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Date
2010.
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N973.71/19
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English
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Physical content
449 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
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.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2010.
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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 a...
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Confederate reckoning : power and politics in the Civil War South / Stephanie McCurry.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N973.71/19
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74Vvq8P5lGwd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvq8P5lGwd
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0674045890
9780674045897 (hc : alk. paper)
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973.71
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991006307329702626
