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Civil War Alabama (Paperback)
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Civil War Alabama (Paperback)
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Christopher McIlwain's Civil War Alabama is a landmark book that
sheds invigorating new light on the causes, the course, and the
outcomes in Alabama of the nation's greatest drama and trauma.
Based on twenty years of exhaustive research that draws on a vast
trove of primary sources such as letters, newspapers, and personal
journals, Civil War Alabama presents compelling new explanations
for how Alabama's white citizens came to take up arms against the
federal government. A fledgling state at only forty years old,
Alabama approached the 1860s with expanding populations of both
whites and black slaves. They were locked together in a powerful
yet fragile economic engine that produced and concentrated titanic
wealth in the hands of a white elite. Perceiving themselves trapped
between a mass of disenfranchised black slaves and the
industrializing and increasingly abolitionist North, white
Alabamians were led into secession and war by a charismatic cohort
who claimed the imprimatur of biblical scripture, romanticized
traditions of chivalry, and the military mantle of the American
Revolution. And yet, Alabama's white citizens were not a monolith
of one mind. McIlwain dispels the received wisdom of a white
citizenry united behind a cadre of patriarchs and patriots.
Providing a fresh and insightful synthesis of military events,
economic factors such as inflation and shortages, politics and
elections, the pivotal role of the legal profession, and the
influence of the press, McIlwain's Civil War Alabama illuminates
the fissiparous state of white, antebellum Alabamians divided by
class, geography, financial interests, and political loyalties.
Vital and compelling, Civil War Alabama will take its place among
the definitive books about Alabama's doomed Confederate experiment
and legacy. Although he rigorously dismantles idealized myths about
the South's "Lost Cause," McIlwain restores for contemporary
readers the fervent struggles between Alabamians over their
response to the epic crisis of their times.
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