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Author Potter, David Morris.

Title The South and the sectional conflict / David M. Potter.

Publication Info. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1968.

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 Moore Stacks  F214 .P6    Available  ---
Description xi, 321 pages ; 23 cm
Note Essays.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents The enigma of the South.--On understanding the South.--The historian's use of nationalism and vice versa.--The literature on the background of the Civil War.--The Lincoln theme and American national historiography.--Depletion and renewal in Southern history.--John Brown and the paradox of leadership among American Negroes.--Horace Greeley and peaceable secession.--Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession.--Jefferson Davis and the political factors in Confederate defeat.--The Civil War in the history of the modern world; a comparative view.
Subject Southern States -- History.
Southern States.
History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Historiography.
ISBN 7.50