The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865We 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 military fortunes with the concerns that shaped them and were shaped by them. In doing so he also manages to convey a sense of how the war itself deteriorated from something spirited and gallant to something base and mean and modern on both sides. |
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THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF THE OLD SOUTH | 1 |
CULTURAL NATIONALISM IN THE PRECONFED ERATE SOUTH | 17 |
FOUNDATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN NATION | 37 |
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