Virginia's private war : feeding body and soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 /

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A close study of the home front in the Confederacy which seeks to provide a contribution to our understanding of the Confederate defeat. The author challenges the dominant assumption that internal stresses and conflicts, particularly along lines of class and race, undermined the Confederacy. Rather,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Blair, William Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
1861-1865
HISTORY.
Public opinion
Social aspects
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Thuisfront.
Virginia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Public opinion.
Virginia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Public opinion.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
Virginie > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Opinion publique.
Virginie > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Opinion publique.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social.
United States
Virginia
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A slave society goes to war
  • Problems of labor and order, April 1861-April 1862
  • A growing sense of injustice, April 1862-April 1863
  • Toward a rich man's fight, April 1863-April 1864
  • Between privation's devil and the Union's blue sea, March 1864-April 1865
  • The problem of Confederate identity.

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