The South and the sectional conflict / David M. Potter.

By: Potter, David Morris
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1968Description: xi, 321 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Southern States -- History | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- HistoriographyDDC classification: 975 LOC classification: F214 | .P6Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The enigma of the South.--On understanding the South.--The historian's use of nationalism and vice versa.--The literature on the background of the Civil War.--The Lincoln theme and American national historiography.--Depletion and renewal in Southern history.--John Brown and the paradox of leadership among American Negroes.--Horace Greeley and peaceable secession.--Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession.--Jefferson Davis and the political factors in Confederate defeat.--The Civil War in the history of the modern world; a comparative view.
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Essays.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The enigma of the South.--On understanding the South.--The historian's use of nationalism and vice versa.--The literature on the background of the Civil War.--The Lincoln theme and American national historiography.--Depletion and renewal in Southern history.--John Brown and the paradox of leadership among American Negroes.--Horace Greeley and peaceable secession.--Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession.--Jefferson Davis and the political factors in Confederate defeat.--The Civil War in the history of the modern world; a comparative view.

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