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Secession Winter
Cook, Robert J.; Barney, William L.; Varon, Elizabeth R.
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Description for Secession Winter
Secession Winter explores the fact of contingency and reminds readers and students that nothing was foreordained. Series: The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 148 x 222 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays by three senior historians in "Secession Winter" explore the robust debates that preceded these events. For five months in the winter of 1860-1861, Americans did not know for certain that civil war was upon them. Some hoped for a compromise; others wanted a fight. Many struggled to understand what was happening ... Read more
Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays by three senior historians in "Secession Winter" explore the robust debates that preceded these events. For five months in the winter of 1860-1861, Americans did not know for certain that civil war was upon them. Some hoped for a compromise; others wanted a fight. Many struggled to understand what was happening ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Series
The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series
Number of Pages
136
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421408958
SKU
V9781421408958
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About Cook, Robert J.; Barney, William L.; Varon, Elizabeth R.
Robert J. Cook is a professor of American history at the University of Sussex and author of Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic. William L. Barney is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Student ... Read more
Reviews for Secession Winter
This slim but stimulating collection... deserves a wide audience.
Jeremy Neely Journal of Southern History [ Secession Winter] should be attractive for use in undergraduate courses on the Civil War era.
Stanley Harrold The Historian
Jeremy Neely Journal of Southern History [ Secession Winter] should be attractive for use in undergraduate courses on the Civil War era.
Stanley Harrold The Historian