The Confederate Nation: 1861 to 1865“The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject. ” —Journal of Southern History, 2007 “Incisive and insightful…. As good a short history of the Southern war effort was we have.” —T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln and His Generals Emory M. Thomas’s critically acclaimed chronicle of the Confederacy remains widely recognized as the standard history of the South during the Civil War. Now with a new introduction by the author, The Confederate Nation presents a high readable, highly personal portrait of the Southern experience during the Civil War. Thomas, renowned for his illuminating biographies of Robert E. Lee and other Southern generals, here delivers the definitive account of the political and military events that defined the nation during its period of greatest turmoil. |
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Contents
Cultural Nationalism in the PreConfederate South | |
Foundations of the Southern Nation | |
Southern Nationality Established | |
Southern Nationality Confirmed | |
Confederate Nationality Confounded | |
Origins of the Revolutionary South | |
Foreign Relations of a Nascent Nation | |
The Development of the Confederate South | |
The Confederate South at Full Tide | |
The Disintegration of Southern Nationalism | |
Death of the Nation | |
APPENDIX | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Confederate Nation: 1861 to 1865 |
| Author | Emory M. Thomas |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Harper Collins, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0062069462, 9780062069467 |
| Length | 416 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |