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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: William Blair (Associate Professor of History, Director of the Civil War Era Institute, Associate Professor of History, Director of the Civil War Era Institute, Pennsylvania State University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.424kg ISBN: 9780195118643ISBN 10: 0195118642 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 17 December 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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-April 1864 5: Between Privation's Devil and the Union's Blue Sea, March 1864-April 1865 6: The Problem of Confederate Identity Notes BibliographyReviewsBill Blair has made an important addition to the growing literature on the home front in the Civil War, which adds a crucial dimension to our understanding of that conflict. He demonstrates that, whatever their opinion of the Confederate government and its measures, most Virginians remained loyal to the cause of Southern independence to the bitter end. Instead of sapping the will to win, as some scholars have maintained, white civilians helped to sustain army morale. In Virginia the Confederate cause did not collapse internally; it was crushed externally by a determined enemy. --James M. McPherson, Princeton University<br> <br> Bill Blair has made an important addition to the growing literature on the home front in the Civil War, which adds a crucial dimension to our understanding of that conflict. He demonstrates that, whatever their opinion of the Confederate government and its measures, most Virginians remained loyal to the cause of Southern independence to the bitter end. Instead of sapping the will to win, as some scholars have maintained, white civilians helped to sustain army morale. In Virginia the Confederate cause did not collapse internally; it was crushed externally by a determined enemy. --James M. McPherson, Princeton University<br> Author InformationFormerly Assistant Professor of United States History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, William Blair is now Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, where he is also the Director of the Civil War Era Institute. He won the 1996 Allan Nevins Prize (given by the American Society of Historians for the best American History dissertation) and served as the co-editor of A Politician Goes to War: The Civil War Letters of John White Geary (1995). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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