Virginia's private war feeding body and soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865

Summary: 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: 0195118642 (Cloth)
ISBN: 9780195118643
ISBN: 1280529733
ISBN: 9781280529733
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (viii, 206 p.) : maps.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Content descriptions

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.