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The Civil War in the Border South
Contributor(s): Phillips, Christopher (Author)
ISBN: 027599502X     ISBN-13: 9780275995027
Publisher: Praeger
OUR PRICE:   $54.45  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Americas (north Central South West Indies)
- History | Military - United States
Dewey: 973.73
LCCN: 2013011126
Series: Reflections on the Civil War Era
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 200 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
 
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Publisher Description:

By studying the characteristics of those positioned along this fault line during the Civil War, the centrality of the war issue of slavery, which border residents long eschewed as being divisive, became apparent. This book explains how the process of Southernization occurred during and after the Civil War--a phenomenon largely unexplained by historians.

Beyond the broader, more traditional narrative of the clash of arms, within these border slave states raged an inner civil war that shaped the military and political outcomes of the war as well as these states' cultural landscapes. Author Christopher Phillips describes how the Civil War experience in the border states served to form new loyalties and communities of identity that both deeply divided these states and distorted the meaning of the war for postwar generations.