The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against PoliticsAlthough 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 b |
Contents
The Old South A Political Culture in Crisis | 8 |
Through a Glass Darkly Secession and the Future of Southern Politics | 20 |
The Crisis of Southern Constitutionalism | 39 |
Establishing Political Legitimacy | 64 |
A New Political Universe | 88 |
Origins of Political Crisis | 111 |
Desperate Times Desperate Measures Desperate Politics | 132 |
Internal Stresses of War | 154 |
The Elections of 1863 and Political Fragmentation | 214 |
Factious Politics | 236 |
Principle Power Politics and Peace | 255 |
National Identity the Political Cultures and Wars End | 277 |
Epilogue | 299 |
Notes | 303 |
Bibliography | 367 |
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