The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture

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A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and the inherent contradictions that undermined that effort. * Photographs, maps, and graphs enrich the text and illustrate changes in military strength, the importance of the Border South, and the loss of Confederate territory over time * A bibliographical essay directs the reader to some of the most important and recent works in the vast historiography of the Civil War

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"Recommended. Most levels/libraries." - Choice "Several fine titles have appeared in recent years in the Reflections on the Civil War Era series edited by John David Smith, and to them Paul D. Escott's The Confederacy makes a fine addition. ... An excellent and thoughtful work in brief compass, The Confederacy will be valuable to student and scholar alike." - Journal of American History "With The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture, Paul D. Escott has written a clear, concise synthesis of the life cycle of the Confederacy based on an impressive array of primary sources and a review of current secondary literature" - Journal of Southern History

Author Bio

Paul D. Escott is Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, and the author of several books on the South and the Civil War, including Praeger's Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy.