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  • Apostles of Disunion

    Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

    Series series A Nation Divided
    Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Making of a Racist

    A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade

    In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation.Dew re-creates the midcentury American South of his childhood--in many respects a boy’s paradise, but one stained by Lost Cause ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Secession as an International Phenomenon

    From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements

    About half of today’s nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession.As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War approaches, this collection of essays allows us to view within a broader ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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    Apostles of Disunion

    Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition

    Narrated by Mitchell Dorian ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 4 min

    Charles Dew's Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states' secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

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    In Search of Washington and His Legacy

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