{"product_id":"civil-war-alabama-paperback-softback-9780817360054","title":"Civil War Alabama (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817360054","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCivil War Alabama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher Lyle McIlwain (Author), G. Ward Hubbs (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817360054\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 October 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e456 pages, 19 black \u0026amp; white figures, 10 maps, 8 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.685 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNot since Walter Lynwood Fleming's partisan Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama (1905) has there been a broad history of this state's Civil War experience. To be sure, there is no dearth of recent books and articles on specific aspects of the war and its vivid personalities and legacies - from the Battle of Mobile Bay to Gen. Josiah Gorgas' herculean efforts to keep the Confederacy in powder and shot - but not one since Fleming has attempted to wrap it all into one package.\" - \u003ci\u003eAlabama Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Exhaustively researched, skillfully compiled, and engagingly written, McIlwain's impressive volume is a service to scholars searching for greater detail and support for their own work, as well as Alabamians hoping to understand exactly how their state could fall into the grip of destructive demagogues and ruinous rebellion.\" - \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCivil War Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most interesting and provocative studies of a Confederate state that has appeared in recent years. McIlwain presents an impressive amount of fresh research and information that advances a number of striking and controversial interpretations.\" - George C. Rable, author of\u003ci\u003e God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McIlwain has produced an engaging, often witty, and always informative study of the development of Reconstructionist thought in Alabama. This is a topic that has only recently garnered serious attention, and so McIlwain stands as one of its pioneers.\" - Ben H. Severance, author of\u003ci\u003e Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Alabama in the Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTennessee's Radical Army: The State Guard and Its Role in Reconstruction, 1867-1869\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eChristopher McIlwain's \u003ci\u003eCivil War Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eCivil War Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e presents compelling new explanations for how Alabama's white citizens came to take up arms against the federal government.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnd 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 \u003ci\u003eCivil War Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the fissiparous state of white, antebellum Alabamians divided by class, geography, financial interests, and political loyalties.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eVital and compelling, \u003ci\u003eCivil War Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword by G. Ward Hubbs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I. Alabama Secedes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. The \"\u003cbr\u003eLawyers'\u003cbr\u003e Revolution\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. \"\u003cbr\u003eA Leap in the Dark\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3 \"\u003cbr\u003eThere Will Be a Revulsion\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II. The War Begins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4 \"\u003cbr\u003eSprinkle Blood in the Face of the People\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5 \"\u003cbr\u003eFood for Sad and Gloomy Fits\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6 Evil Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III The Decree of the Nation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7 \"\u003cbr\u003eYankeeizing Southerners\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8 \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Struggle of the Masters\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart IV The Hard War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9 The Destroying Angels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10 The Reconstructionists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11 The Slaughter Pen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12 The River of Death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart V In Search of Peace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13 \"\u003cbr\u003eGod Close This Terrible War\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14 War Eagle!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15 The Horrors of the Black Flag\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart VI Bowing Down to Mars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16 \"\u003cbr\u003eRetrograde Movements\"\u003cbr\u003e and \"\u003cbr\u003eBackward Advances\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17 Rousseau'\u003cbr\u003es Raid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 18 The Fall of Mobile Bay and Atlanta\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart VII The Death Throes of a Rebellion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 19 \"\u003cbr\u003eOn the Wrong Side of the Line of Battle\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 20 \"\u003cbr\u003eRats to Your Holes\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 21 \"\u003cbr\u003eBalls and Parties Are All the Rage\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 22 Franklin, Nashville, and Disintegration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart VIII \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Holocaust\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 23 \"\u003cbr\u003eNe-Gotiation\"\u003cbr\u003e or \"\u003cbr\u003eNe-Grotiation\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 24 \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Day of Jubilee Am Come!\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 25 Conclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574419222808,"sku":"9780817360054","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/civil-war-alabama-paperback-softback-9780817360054","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}