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Look away! : a history of the Confederate States of America Cover Image Book

Look away! : a history of the Confederate States of America / William C. Davis.

Davis, William C., 1946- (Author).

Summary:

A comprehensive history of the Confederacy moves beyond military events to examine legal structures, politics, social structures, and the economy of the South during the Civil War.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0684865858
  • ISBN: 9780684865850
  • Physical Description: xi, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Free Press, [2002]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-478) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Guiding the whirlwind -- Shadowy words, shadowy meanings -- Visions of breakers ahead -- The struggle for a Confederate Democracy -- Men but not brothers -- Law and disorder -- "Proving our loyalty by starvation" -- "We are done gone up the spout" -- The enemy within -- Cotton communism, whiskey welfare, and salt socialism -- The states in their sovereignty -- The power and the ignominy in Richmond -- "Growlers & Traitors" -- The end?.

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Subject: Confederate States of America > History.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.

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