The South and the sectional conflict
By: [by] David M. Potter.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Southern States -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Essays.
Table of contents: title: The enigma of the South.; title: On understanding the South.; title: The historian's use of nationalism and vice versa.; title: The literature on the background of the Civil War.; title: The Lincoln theme and American national historiography.; title: Depletion and renewal in Southern history.; title: John Brown and the paradox of leadership among American Negroes.; title: Horace Greeley and peaceable secession.; title: Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession.; title: Jefferson Davis and the political factors in Confederate defeat.; title: The Civil War in the history of the modern world; a comparative view.