About this title: If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal divisions or civilian disaffection, others point to flawed military strategy or ambivalence over slavery. This book argues that we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon, but rather how ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780674160552ISBN:067416055X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780674160552ISBN:067416055X
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. viii, 218 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Winner of the 1997 Laney Prize for Best Book on the Military History of the Civil War. Honorable Mention, Lincoln Prize Committee, Gettysburg College. "If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal division or civilian disaffection; others ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachussets
Date Published: 1997
Description: 8" x 7". 218 pp. Blue and black paper covered boards, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. A reexamination of how the Confederacy lost the Civil War, arguing that defeat was not inevitable. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780674160552ISBN:067416055X
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 9780674160552. 1.04 x 8.25 x 7.27 Inches; 232 pages; History Book Club edition, virtually indistinquishable from the first edition. A fine copy with no apparent flaws in the book or the dust jacket; no ownership marks. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780674160569ISBN:0674160568
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Description: Good. 0674160568 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1997
Description: Very Good/Very Good. How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could Not Stave Off Defeat. A clean and bright copy. DJ protected in Mylar. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, London
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780674160552ISBN:067416055X
Description: Very Good/Near Fine. 067416055x Book square 8vo, image reproduction of civil war battle tipped on front endpaper along with the little blurb of the author, Index 218p. previous owner initials and date on endpapers. read more
"Professor Gallagher offers perhaps the most balanced approach yet written on the subject in his discussion of why and how the Confederacy persisted for four years. Though far from a Lost Cause adherent (indeed, a scholar on its history and its flaws), Gallagher shifts attention from the tempting notion that the Southern states unraveled from within, to the correct root cause of the South's demise - unequivocal defeat on the battlefield. A master of Confederate historiography, the author clearly establishes that Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia became the premier national institution as the war progressed. His explication of Southern reasons for prosecuting the war dovetail nicely with James McPherson's approach in For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), and it is no wonder that McPherson cites Gallagher favorably in his recent work, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). Gallagher's Confederate War should and certainly will remain one of the most important and influential books on the history of the Southern Confederacy."
"This book was recommended to me because of my amateur interest in American History. The author challenges popular historian opinion that the general lack of will and nationalism among Confederates led to their failure. Instead, he provides first-hand references to shed light on a strong identity among Confederates in steadfast support of efforts to secure an independent slaveholding nation in spite of the War's severe destruction to the South. I found the analysis interesting, but my Civil War background is too weak to adequately consider the author's thesis."
"gallagher disputes the theory that confederates lost the war because of a lack of will to fight and, in turn, praises that confederate spirit. i find after reading all of his citations, various letters to and from home and the battlefields, that the confederate soldiers didn't really know what they were fighting for, and every reason is jam-packed with empty rhetoric about "this great nation." gallagher follows this opnion when he calls into question the legitimacy of the confederacy AS A NATION, and he aptly notes that only by virtue of its military, could the confederate states have resembled anything. and look at how that turned out...
yet the book doesn't fail to strike home with htis southern girl, and i cringe when i admit, that after reading all these words on the civil war in the past ouple years, something in me still roots for the confederacy and all its empty rhetoric."
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