The Confederacy - Brossura

Roland, Charles P. P.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226724514 ISBN 13: 9780226724515

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 1962

Riassunto

The Confederacy was never single-minded. From the fateful year of 1861 until Appomattox, the South was a complex of heroism and cowardice, grief and frivolity, nationalism and state rights. But at the same time the Southern nation underwent a complete career from birth through maturity to death.

In The Confederacy Charles P. Roland is faithful to both the larger career and the internal complexity. Paying careful attention to President Davis' struggle against dividing forces within, the author skillfully narrates the attempt of the Confederacy to wage total war against superior forces. All the poignant events and conditions are here: the formation of the government, the upper South's final commitment to the cause, the doomed attempts to combat the Northern blockade at home and Northern diplomacy overseas, an agrarian economy's heroic defiance of an industrial enemy, the desperate measures by which the Davis government tried to sustain the Confederacy, and, at last, the dissolution and flight of the administration in 1865.

With accuracy, sensitivity, and balance, Mr. Roland develops the epic themes of his story against a background of vivid historical detail and re-creates the Confederacy with a tragic splendor—the prime quality of its surviving image among Southerners.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Charles P. Roland is professor emeritus of history at the University of Kentucky.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1962
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226724514
• ISBN 13: 9780226724515
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile