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  • Conflict of Command

    George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War

    by George C. Rable, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln AwardWinner of the Austin Civil War Round Table Book PrizeFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book PrizeThe fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard narrative casting the two as foils, with the Great Emancipator inevitably coming out on top over his supposedly ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Confederate Republic

    A Revolution against Politics

    by George C. Rable ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Although much has been written about the ways in which Confederate politics affected the course of the Civil War, George Rable is the first historian to investigate Confederate political culture in its own right. Focusing on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology, Rable reveals how southerners attempted to purify the political process and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • God's Almost Chosen Peoples

    A Religious History of the American Civil War

    by George C. Rable ...
    Series series Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
    Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God’s Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize–winning historian George C. Rable offers a groundbreaking account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Civil Wars

    Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism

    by George C. Rable ...
    Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
    Born into a male-dominated society, southern women often chose to support patriarchy and their own celebrated roles as mothers, wives, and guardians of the home and humane values. George C. Rable uncovers the details of how women fit into the South's complex social order and how Southern social assumptions shaped their attitudes toward themselves, their families, and society as a whole. He reveals ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Damn Yankees!

    Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South

    by George C. Rable ...
    Series series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
    During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy. Damn Yankees! explores the proliferation of this rhetoric and demonstrates how the perpetual vilification of northerners became a weapon during the war, fostering hatred and resistance among the people of the Confederacy.Drawing from ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Enigmatic South

    Toward Civil War and Its Legacies

    by Paul F. Paskoff, John M. Sacher, Eric H. Walther, Christopher Childers, Julia Nguyen, Sarah Hyde, Gaines M. Foster, George C. Rable ...
    The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American history.Christopher Childers, Sarah L. Hyde, and Julia Huston Nguyen consider the ways politics, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Historian behind the History

    Conversations with Southern Historians

    by Richard J.M. Blackett, Dan T. Carter, Pete Daniel, Laura F. Edwards, William Freehling, Gary W. Gallagher, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, James M. McPherson, Theodore Rosengarten, J. Mills Thornton III ...
    The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern historians and mentors illuminate the state of historiography, their experiences in the profession, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!

    by George C. Rable ...
    Series series Civil War America
    During the battle of Gettysburg, as Union troops along Cemetery Ridge rebuffed Pickett’s Charge, they were heard to shout, “Give them Fredericksburg!” Their cries reverberated from a clash that, although fought some six months earlier, clearly loomed large in the minds of Civil War soldiers.Fought on December 13, 1862, the battle of Fredericksburg ended in a stunning defeat for the Union. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Race and Reunion

    The Civil War in American Memory

    by David W. Blight ...
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • The Fall of the House of Dixie

    The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

    by Bruce Levine ...
    In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Ecstatic Nation

    Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877

    by Brenda Wineapple ...
    "From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly." —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous ... ... Read more

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  • This Mighty Scourge

    Perspectives on the Civil War

    by James M. McPherson ...
    The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom and the New York Times bestsellers Crossroads of Freedom and Tried by War, among many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. In this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the enduring questions about one of the defining moments ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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