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The South and the sectional conflict [electronic resource] / David M. Potter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Potter, David Morris.
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southern States--History.
- Southern States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 321 p. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1968.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Essays.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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