The Elements of Confederate Defeat: Nationalism, War Aims, and Religion

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University of Georgia Press, 1988 - 244 من الصفحات
In Why the South Lost the Civil War, four historians considered the dominant explanations of southern defeat. At end, the authors found that states' rights disputes, the Union blockade, and inadequate southern forces did not fully account for the surrender. Rather, they concluded, the South lacked the will to win. Its strength sapped by a faltering Confederate nationalism and weakened by a peculiar brand of evangelical Protestantism, the South withdrew from a war not yet lost on the field of battle.

Roughly one-half the size of its parent study, The Elements of Confederate Defeat retains all the essential arguments of the earlier edition, forming for the student a book that at once follows the events of the war and presents the major interpretations of its outcome in the South.

 

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Chapter Two The Confederacys Logistical Problems
14
Chapter Four Religion and the Chosen People
32
Chapter Five Trial by Battle
44
Chapter Six The Politics of Dreams
65
Chapter Seven The Union Navy and Combined Operations
82
Chapter Eight States Rights and the Confederate War Effort
89
Chapter Nine Union Concentration in Time and Space
105
Chapter Twelve God Guilt and the Confederacy in Collapse
154
Chapter Thirteen Coming to Terms with Slavery
168
Chapter Fourteen States Rights White Supremacy Honor
179
Chapter Fifteen The Elements of Confederate Defeat
187
Bibliographical Essay
207
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Richard E. Beringer is a professor of history at the University of North Dakota and the coeditor of a volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Herman Hattaway is a professor of history at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and the coauthor with Archer Jones of How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War. Archer Jones is emeritus professor of history and former dean at North Dakota State University. William N. Still Jr. is a professor of history at East Carolina University and the author of several books, including Odyssey in Gray: A Diary of Confederate Service, 1863-1865.

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