Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia (Civil War America) - Softcover

Sheehan-Dean, Aaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807861847 ISBN 13: 9780807861844

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009

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Book by SheehanDean Aaron

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Continues the ongoing debate over what inspired Confederate soldiers to fight. . . . Steer[s] us toward important new questions.--H-Net This study . . . rests on a statistical base that does not intrude on the fascinating narrative. . . . An essential study underlining the need for works on other states.--Military History of the West A fresh approach to the issues. . . . A good book raises good questions as much as it answers them. Sheehan-Dean . . . succeeds in doing both.--On Point A major contribution to the growing body of literature on Civil War soldiers.--North Carolina Historical Review This well-researched, well written book is a very welcome addition to the literature on nationalism in the Confederacy.--The Journal of American History A careful analysis [that] should . . . supersede previous works.--American Historical Review [A] detailed and masterfully defended monograph. . . . An engaging study that is essential to understanding Confederates' commitment to independence and the origins of the cultural campaign to venerate the southern mission in the generations after surrender.--Civil War History A singular contribution to the debate. . . . Sensible and engaging.--Journal of Military History A good book that should provoke further investigations into the motives of both soldiers and civilians in supporting the Confederacy.-- The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society A fresh and forceful contribution to our understanding of why these Virginians fought and how the very course of the war served to create new rationales for their resolve in doing so for so much of the Confederate nation's four-year lifespan.--Civil War Book Review A thought-compelling, quality monograph. . . . Highly recommended.--CHOICE Sheehan-Dean's road may be the heavily traveled highway of Confederate nationalism, but his vehicle is distinctive.--Journal of Interdisciplinary History No other study of Civil War soldiers succeeds like Why Confederates Fought in integrating all the dimensions of the soldier experience. . . . An immensely important book. . . . No scholar has made such important connections before, enabling Sheehan-Dean to give us a deeply humanistic view of Confederate soldiers.--Journal of Social History A thought-provoking analysis of the rise of the Confederate nation. . . . Should serve as a model for meticulous historical research. . . . An engaging text, which challenges scholars to look more carefully at the motivation that caused Virginians to fight for the Confederacy.--Southern Historian [A] persuasive demonstration that white Virginians did in fact support the Confederacy, and that they did so because they saw its army as the principal means by which to protect their families.--Virginia Magazine Paying refreshingly close attention to change over time, Sheehan-Dean convincingly shows that, far from fracturing the Confederacy, Union hard-war policies condensed it.--Journal of Southern History As is true of the best recent scholarship on Confederate nationalism, Sheehan-Dean carefully delineates the evolution of Virginian soldiers' national commitment amid the bloody crucible of the Civil War. . . . Will prompt a new wave of much-needed scholarship that grounds these loyalties within Confederate daily life.--H-CivilWar

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In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers--even those who were nonslaveholders--adapted their vision of the war's purpose to remain committed Confederates.

Sheehan-Dean challenges earlier arguments that middle- and lower-class southerners gradually withdrew their support for the Confederacy because their class interests were not being met. Instead he argues that Virginia soldiers continued to be motivated by the profound emotional connection between military service and the protection of home and family, even as the war dragged on. The experience of fighting, explains Sheehan-Dean, redefined southern manhood and family relations, established the basis for postwar race and class relations, and transformed the shape of Virginia itself. He concludes that Virginians' experience of the Civil War offers important lessons about the reasons we fight wars and the ways that those reasons can change over time.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0807861847
• ISBN 13: 9780807861844
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308