Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

  • Author: Thomas, Emory M.
  • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
  • Serie: Southern Classics
  • ISBN: 9780872497801
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781643362991
  • Place of publication:  South Carolina , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2021
  • Month: November
  • DDC: 973.7/13
  • Language: English

This volume, first published in 1971, has made us look again at the events surrounding the Civil War. The Confederate Southerners likened themselves to the American revolutionaries of 1776. Although both revolutions sought independence and the overthrow of an existing political system, the Confederates battled for a political separation to conserve rather than to create. The result, however, was a transformation of the antebellum traditions they were fighting to preserve.

  • Cover
  • The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
  • 1. QUEST FOR THE QUINTESSENTIAL SOUTH
  • 2. SECESSION A Revolution of Sorts
  • 3. CONVENTIONAL MEN AND REVOLUTIONARY WAR
  • 4. THE DAVIS ADMINISTRATION AND STATE RIGHTS The Political Revolution
  • 5. COTTON TO CANNON The Economic Revolution
  • 6. MINT JULEPS TO MINIE BALLS The Social Revolution
  • 7. BLACK CONFEDERATES Slavery and Wartime
  • 8. HONEST TO CLIO The Confederate Revolutions
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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