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Bezig met laden... The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politicsdoor George C. Rable
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. An unpopular book, not surprisingly, inasmuch as it discusses the "revolt against politics" in the Confederacy. The two strains that still plague the South could not be resolved -- the nationalists who supported Davis and what Rable calls the Libertarians doomed the South to disaster. It's a cliche to say that the South died of states' rights and it is not exactly blossoming now. No one below the Mason-Dixon Line understands history apparently -- there were plenty of examples of that lacking in 1860-65 and many more today. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Civil War America (1994)
Although much has been written about the ways in which Confederate politics affected the course of the Civil War, George Rable is the first historian to investigate Confederate political culture in its own right. Focusing on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology, Rable reveals how southerners attempted to purify the political process and avoid what they saw as the evils of parties and partisanship. According to Rable, secession marked the beginning of a revolution against politics, in which the Confederacy's founding fathers saw themselves as the true heirs of the American Revolution. Nevertheless, factionalism developed as the war dragged on, with Confederate nationalists emphasizing political unity and support for President Jefferson Davis's administration and libertarian dissenters warning of the dangers of a centralized Confederate government. Both sides claimed to be the legitimate defenders of a genuine southern republicanism and of Confederate nationalism, and the conflict between them carried over from the strictly political sphere to matters of military strategy, civil religion, and education. Rable concludes that despite the war's outcome, the Confederacy's antipolitical legacy had a profound impact on southern politics. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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