Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics

by George C. Rable

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807821446
• ISBN13: 9780807821442
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"