The South and the sectional conflict
| Main Author: | Potter, David Morris. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
1968.
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 321 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The enigma of the South.
- On understanding the South.
- The historian's use of nationalism and vice versa.
- The literature on the background of the Civil War.
- The Lincoln theme and American national historiography.
- Depletion and renewal in Southern history.
- John Brown and the paradox of leadership among American Negroes.
- Horace Greeley and peaceable secession.
- Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession.
- Jefferson Davis and the.
- political factors in Confederate defeat.
- The Civil War in the history of the modern world; a comparative view.