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