The South and the sectional conflict

Author(s)

• Potter, David Morris

Bibliographic Information

The South and the sectional conflict

David M. Potter

Louisiana State University Press, 1968

Note

Essays

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BA10249891
• LCCN: 68008941
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baton Rouge
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 321 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F214
  • DC : 975
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Southern States -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Historiography