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Starving the South : how the North won the Civil War / Andrew F. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Andrew F., 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army.
- Food industry and trade.
- History.
- Food supply.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Food supply.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic aspects.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Blockades.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Supplies and stores.
- Confederate States of America.
- Confederate States of America. Army.
- United States. Army--Supplies and stores--History--19th century.
- Confederate States of America--Economic conditions.
- Food industry and trade--United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 295 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Lincoln's humbug of a blockade
- Scarcity and hunger
- Bread riots
- Abundance and organization
- Gibraltar of the Mississippi
- Traders or traitors?
- The Confederacy's breadbasket
- Giving thanks and no thanks
- Hard war
- Capital hunger.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-277) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780312601812
- 0312601816
- OCLC:
- 651912531
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