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The Enigmatic South : Toward Civil War and Its Legacies /

The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in Americ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hyde, Samuel C., 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / James M. McPherson
  • Politics, education, and secession : The old republican constitutional primer : states rights after the Missouri controversy and the onset of the politics of slavery / Christopher Childers
  • Punctuated progress : education developments in the antebellum Gulf South / Sarah L. Hyde
  • Preaching disunion : clergymen in the Louisiana secession crisis / Julia Huston Nguyen
  • The diverse challenges of war : Confederate dilemmas : the strange case of Clement L. Vallandigham / George C. Rable
  • Rich man's fight : wealth, privilege, and military service in Confederate Mississippi / Paul F. Paskoff
  • Searching for "some plain and simple method" : Jefferson Davis and Confederate conscription / John M. Sacher
  • The legacy of war and its memory: Old South, New South : the strange career of Pierre Champomier / Richard Follett
  • Continuity recast : Judge Edward McGehee, Wilkinson County, and the saga of Bowling Green Plantation / Samuel C. Hyde Jr
  • A monument of paper for William Lowndes Yancey : crafting and obscuring historical memory / Eric H. Walther
  • Afterword : contingency and continuity : William J. Cooper Jr., an appreciation / Gaines M. Foster.