William L Barney

Rebels in the Making

The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive study of secession in all fifteen slave states, Rebels in the Making is a political, social, and economic history of the late antebellum South that examines the appeal of secession to a variety of actors in these states and reveals it to be not a mass democratic movement but a revolution led from above.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780190076085
• ISBN-10: 0190076089
• Artikelnr.: 57830212

Autorenporträt

William L. Barney is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War (OUP, 2011); The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir's Civil War (OUP, 2007); and The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860, among other titles.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Uneasy Rests the Masters: Strains from Below in the 1850s
Chapter 2 Getting Right with Slavery: The Drive for Unity
Chapter 3 Waiting for Lincoln: The Election of 1860
Chapter 4 Verdict Rendered: Lincoln is Elected
Chapter 5 South Carolina Takes the Lead
Chapter 6 Deadlock and a Deepening Crisis
Chapter 7 Secessionist Surge: The Lower South Leaves
Chapter 8 The Upper South: Straddling the Divide
Chapter 9 The Confederacy: A Slaveholder's Republic
Chapter 10 From Waiting Game to War: Lincoln Takes Command
Conclusion
Notes
Index