The Confederate Experience Reader: Selected Documents and Essays / Edition 1

by John Derrick Fowler

Overview

The Confederate Experience Reader provides students and professors with the essential materials needed to understand and appreciate the major issues confronting the Southern Republic's brief existence during the American Civil War. This anthology covers the full history of the Confederate experience including the origins of the antebellum South, the rise of southern nationalism, the 1860 election and the subsequent Secession Crisis, the military conflict, and Reconstruction. Drawing from a full range of primary writings that describe the experience of living in the Southern Republic in vivid detail, as well as a careful selection of secondary works by prominent scholars in the field of confederate history, The Confederate Experience Reader allows students to situate the Confederate experience within the larger context of Southern and American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415978781
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/02/2007
Pages:	540
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

J.D. Fowler is Associate Professor of History at Kennesaw State University, and the author of Mountaineers in Gray: The Story of the Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.

Table of Contents

1. Diverging Cultures, Colonial Period to 1846 2. Sectional Tensions, 1846–1860 3. The Secession Crisis 4. Establishing the Southern Republic 5. A War for Liberty and Slavery, Military Events and Issues, 1861–1862 6. The Daily Life of Johnny Reb 7. Confederate Women 8. The African American Experience 9. Dissension and Internal Collapse on the Homefront 10. A Struggle for Survival, Military Events and Issues, 1863–1865 11. Why Did The Confederacy Fail? 12. Reconstructing the South 13. Remembering the War, the Lost Cause and Confederate Memorialization

Editorial Reviews

'An invaluable resource for studying the Civil War...' – History Teaching Review

'Balanced and well thought out...' – Contemporary Review

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