Bøger af George C. Rable

During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy. Damn Yankees! explores the proliferation of this rhetoric and demonstrates how the perpetual vilification of northerners became a weapon during the war.

A comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial hegemony.

Offers a groundbreaking account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith to interpret the course of the civil war. It underscores religion's presence in the everyday lives of Americans north and south struggling to understand the meaning of the conflict, from the tragedy of individual death to victory and defeat in battle and even the ultimate outcome of the war.

Fought on December 13, 1862, the battle of Fredericksburg ended in a stunning defeat for the Union. This text presents an account of this Civil War campaign, placing it within its political, social and military context. It also addresses questions of strategy and material conditions in the camp.

Offering an investigation of Confederate political culture, this title focuses on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology. It shows how southerners attempted to purify the political process and avoid what they saw as the evils of parties and partisanship.