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Confederate reckoning : power and politics in the Civil War South / Stephanie McCurry.
Author
McCurry, Stephanie
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2010.
Description
449 p. ; 25 cm.
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Available Online
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E487 .M18 2010
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Subject(s)
African Americans
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Southern States
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Social conditions
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19th century
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Women
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Southern States
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Social conditions
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19th century
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Slavery
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Political aspects
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Southern States
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History
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19th century
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Slavery
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Social aspects
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Southern States
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History
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19th century
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Confederate States of America
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Politics and government
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Confederate States of America
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Social conditions
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United States
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History
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Civil War, 1861-1865
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Social aspects
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United States
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History
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Civil War, 1861-1865
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Women
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United States
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History
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Civil War, 1861-1865
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African Americans
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Women
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Summary note
"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 soldiers tested the Confederate vision at every point and created domestic crises to match those found on the battlefields. Women and slaves became critical political actors as they contested government enlistment and tax and welfare policies, and struggled for their freedom. The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate State of America as the disenfranchised demanded to be counted and considered in the great struggle. The government was forced to become accountable to women and slaves, provoking an astounding transformation of the slaveholders' state. Confederate Reckoning is the startling story of this epic political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy and the outcome of the Civil War."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Power and politics in the Civil War South
ISBN
9780674045897 ((hc ; : alk. paper))
0674045890
9780674064218
0674064216
LCCN
2009051647
OCLC
456169983
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