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Autore |
Blair William Alan |
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Titolo |
Virginia's private war [[electronic resource] ] : feeding body and soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 / / William Alan Blair |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
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0-19-771766-7 |
1-280-52973-3 |
0-19-802794-X |
1-4294-0457-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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United States History |
Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865 Public opinion |
Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Public opinion |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p.179-196) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; 1 A Slave Society Goes to War; 2 Problems of Labor and Order, April 1861-April 1862; 3 A Growing Sense of Injustice, April 1862-April 1863; 4 Toward a Rich Man's Fight, April 1863-ApriI 1864; 5 Between Privation's Devil and the Union's Blue Sea, March 1864-April 1865; 6 The Problem of Confederate Identity; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A study of the home front in the Confederacy which seeks to contribute to our understanding of the Confederate defeat. The author challenges the dominant assumption that internal stresses and conflicts, particularly of class and race, undermined the Confederacy, and offers another interpretation. |
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