| The Elements of Confederate Defeat Contributor(s): Beringer, Richard E. (Author), Hattaway, Herman (Author), Jones, Archer (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820310778 ISBN-13: 9780820310770 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Dewey: 973.713 |
| LCCN: 88017311 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Why the South Lost the Civil War, four historians considered the dominant explanations of southern defeat. At end, the authors found that states' rights disputes, the Union blockade, and inadequate southern forces did not fully account for the surrender. Rather, they concluded, the South lacked the will to win. Its strength sapped by a faltering Confederate nationalism and weakened by a peculiar brand of evangelical Protestantism, the South withdrew from a war not yet lost on the field of battle. Roughly one-half the size of its parent study, The Elements of Confederate Defeat retains all the essential arguments of the earlier edition, forming for the student a book that at once follows the events of the war and presents the major interpretations of its outcome in the South. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beringer, Richard E.: - RICHARD E. BERINGER is a professor of history at the University of North Dakota and the coeditor of a volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis. |