Ebook: Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas
Author: Lesley J. Gordon John C. Inscoe
- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Language: English
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Many of the volume’s twenty essays focus on individuals, households, communities, and particular regions of the South, highlighting the sheer variety of circumstances southerners faced over the course of the war. Other chapters explore the public and private dilemmas faced by diplomats, policy makers, journalists, and soldiers within the new nation. All of the essays attempt to explain the place of southerners within the Confederacy, how they came to see themselves and others differently because of the new nation, and the disparities between their expectations and reality.
Contributors include James M. McPherson, William C. Davis, Joseph T. Glatthaar, William S. McFeely, Nina Silber, Jean E. Friedman, John C. Inscoe, Clarence L. Mohr, Thomas G. Dyer, Lesley J. Gordon, Brian S. Wills, Russell Duncan, Jennifer Lund Smith, David H. MgGee, Frank J. Byrne, Keith S. Bohannon, Rod Andrew Jr., Christopher Phillips, Jennifer Lynn Gross, Philip D. Dillard, and Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein. This exciting new collection continues the interpretive debates Thomas’s work first inspired thirty-five years ago, affirming his lasting influence on Civil War history.