The Confederate Republic
eBook - ePub

The Confederate Republic

A Revolution against Politics

  1. 440 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Confederate Republic

A Revolution against Politics

About this book

Although much has been written about the ways in which Confederate politics affected the course of the Civil War, George Rable is the first historian to investigate Confederate political culture in its own right. Focusing on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology, Rable reveals how southerners attempted to purify the political process and avoid what they saw as the evils of parties and partisanship.

According to Rable, secession marked the beginning of a revolution against politics, in which the Confederacy’s founding fathers saw themselves as the true heirs of the American Revolution. Nevertheless, factionalism developed as the war dragged on, with Confederate nationalists emphasizing political unity and support for President Jefferson Davis’s administration and libertarian dissenters warning of the dangers of a centralized Confederate government. Both sides claimed to be the legitimate defenders of a genuine southern republicanism and of Confederate nationalism, and the conflict between them carried over from the strictly political sphere to matters of military strategy, civil religion, and education. Rable concludes that despite the war’s outcome, the Confederacy’s antipolitical legacy had a profound impact on southern politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: The Old South: A Political Culture in Crisis
  9. Chapter 2: Through a Glass Darkly: Secession and the Future of Southern Politics
  10. Chapter 3: The Crisis of Southern Constitutionalism
  11. Chapter 4: Establishing Political Legitimacy
  12. Chapter 5: A New Political Universe
  13. Chapter 6: Origins of Political Crisis
  14. Chapter 7: Desperate Times, Desperate Measures, Desperate Politics
  15. Chapter 8: Internal Stresses of War
  16. Chapter 9: The Two Political Cultures
  17. Chapter 10: Spring and Summer of Discontent
  18. Chapter 11: The Elections of 1863 and Political Fragmentation
  19. Chapter 12: Factious Politics
  20. Chapter 13: Principle, Power, Politics, and Peace
  21. Chapter 14: National Identity, the Political Cultures, and War’s End
  22. Epilogue
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index