The South and the sectional conflict [by] David M. Potter.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1968.Description: xi, 321 p. 23 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • F 214 .P6
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.
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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.

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