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The Confederate Republic - A Revolution against Politics (Paperback, New edition)
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The Confederate Republic - A Revolution against Politics (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Civil War America
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Total price: R1,283
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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. Consulting a wide range of sources, including
newspapers, sermons, contemporary textbooks, political
correspondence, and military documents, Rable constructs an
analytical narrative of Confederate political culture, arguing that
it did more to strengthen the Confederacy than weaken it. He
concludes that despite the war's outcome, the anti-political legacy
of the Confederate republic had a profound impact on the future of
Southern politics.
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