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The South Vs the South. How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.
William W. Freehling
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Description for The South Vs the South. How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.
Paperback. A provocative new history of the Civil War showing how divisions within the South itself, plus the genius of Abraham Lincoln, won the war for the North. Num Pages: 256 pages, numerous halftones & maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 209.
Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North's greater industrial might. Now, in The South Vs. the South, one of America's leading authorities on the Civil War era offers an entirely new answer to this question. William Freehling argues that anti-Confederate Southerners--specifically, border state whites and southern blacks--helped cost the Confederacy the war. White men in such border states as Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland, Freehling points out, were divided in their loyalties--but far more joined the Union army (or simply stayed home) than marched ... Read more
Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North's greater industrial might. Now, in The South Vs. the South, one of America's leading authorities on the Civil War era offers an entirely new answer to this question. William Freehling argues that anti-Confederate Southerners--specifically, border state whites and southern blacks--helped cost the Confederacy the war. White men in such border states as Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland, Freehling points out, were divided in their loyalties--but far more joined the Union army (or simply stayed home) than marched ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195156294
SKU
V9780195156294
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About William W. Freehling
William W. Freehling is Professor of History and Otis A. Singletary Chair in Humanities at the University of Kentucky, and is the author of The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Disunionists at Bay, 1776-1854, which won the Owsley Prize. He lives near Lexington, Kentucky.
Reviews for The South Vs the South. How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.
... a short, sweeping, and often provocative study ... There is much food for thought here, and much that will surely be controversial.
American Nineteenth Century History
This is a book that every serious Civil War scholar should read.
Journal of American Studies
American Nineteenth Century History
This is a book that every serious Civil War scholar should read.
Journal of American Studies