The Civil War in the Border South Contributor(s): Phillips, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 027599502X ISBN-13: 9780275995027 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
Additional Information |
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 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
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. |