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Virginia's private war [electronic resource] : feeding body and soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 / William Blair.
A close study of the home front in the Confederacy which seeks to provide a contribution to our understanding of the Confederate defeat. The author challenges the dominant assumption that internal stresses and conflicts, particularly along lines of class and race, undermined the Confederacy. Rather, he argues that for most of the South the centripetal forces of Confederate nationalism and defence of home and hearth against an invading enemy were more powerful. Internal problems, including dissent, wracked the state of Virginia, yet these private wars actually helped prolong the conflict as they forced authorities to turn the war into more of a rich man's fight.
Record details
- ISBN: 1429404574 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781429404570 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1280529733
- ISBN: 9781280529733
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 206 p.) : maps.
- Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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| General Note: | CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:jan.10.13 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-196) and index. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Genre: | History. Electronic books. |
