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We have for years needed a serious, scholarly, readable work on the Confederate nation that rounds up modem scholarship and offers a fresh and detached view of the whole subject. This work fills that order admirably ... <Thomas> sensibly and deftly integrates the course of Southern... read more
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People edit
- Jefferson Davis: President of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865
- Alexander Stephens: Vice President of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865
- Edmund Ruffin: Southern secessionist.
- Robert Toombs: United States Senator from Georgia, 1853-1861; Confederate States Secretary of State, 1861.
- Judah P. Benjamin: Add a description of this character.
- Robert E. Lee
First Sentence edit
ON an October Tuesday in 1859 an old man with long silver hair poured disconsolance into his diary; Edmund Ruffin was sixty-five years old and prepared to die.
Table of Contents edit
Editors' Introduction
Preface
1. The Social Economy of the Old South
2. Cultural Nationalism in the pre-Confederate South
3. Foundations of the Southern Nation
4. Southern Nationality Established
5. Southern Nationality Confirmed
6. Confederate Nationality Confirmed
7. Origins of the Revolutionary South
8. Foreign Relations of a Nascent Nation
9. The Development of the Confederate South
10. The Confederate South at Full Tide
11. The Disintegration of Southern Nationalism
12. Death of the Nation
Appendix: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America
Bibliography
Index
Series & Lists edit
This book is in New American Nation Series. (publisher series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Emory M. Thomas (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harper & Row
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1979
ISBN: 0060142529
Page Count: 384
Publisher: Harper & Row
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1979
ISBN: 0060142529
Page Count: 384
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: E487 .T483 1979
- Dewey: 973.713
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › Civil War › Confederacy
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › South
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