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[A] fresh look at a confederate governance.--Southern Pines Pilot [Historians] will appreciate [Martinez's] book as the most extensive and detailed study of this important subject.--Journal of Interdisciplinary History A detailed and suggestive analysis of the relevance of slave labor to the failure and success of the Southern war effort and to the economic and social history of the Confederacy.--Michigan War Studies Review A valuable addition to Confederate scholarship and part of a growing trend that focuses less on the top-down nature of the centralized Confederate state and investigates a more realistic understanding of the cooperation necessary between Richmond, the states, and the citizens.--Journal of Southern History An essential study in the relationship between Confederate society, the Confederate military, and the Confederate state.--Civil War Book Review Anyone whose fields include slavery or the Civil War should read this book. . . . Martinez's book also stands to serve as a valuable and necessary corrective to enduring popular myths concerning some of the most significant events and developments in southern history.--American Historical Review Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.--Choice Martinez has produced a work with which all those who question Confederate nationalism and the efficiency of the Confederate government must reckon.--Virginia Magazine More studies like Martinez's are needed to open unexplored avenues into Confederate economic and political history.--America's Civil War Not only important for scholars interested in understanding how impressment should be situated in a larger governmental balancing act between the home front and the front lines but also in comprehending how integral slave labor was to the economic vitality of the Confederacy.--Journal of American History

Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.--Choice <p/>

A valuable addition to Confederate scholarship and part of a growing trend that focuses less on the top-down nature of the centralized Confederate state and investigates a more realistic understanding of the cooperation necessary between Richmond, the states, and the citizens.-- Journal of Southern History

Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.--<i>Choice</i>

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Jaime Amanda Martinez is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, USA.

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