Confederacy Of Ambition

Author : Adrian Brettle
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813944388

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Colossal Ambitions by Adrian Brettle Pdf

Leading politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants preached a transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy, persuading many of their compatriots to fight not merely to retain what they had but to gain their future empire. Impervious to reality, their vision of future world leadership—territorial, economic, political, and cultural—provided a vitally important, underappreciated motivation to form an independent Confederate republic. In Colossal Ambitions, Adrian Brettle explores how leading Confederate thinkers envisioned their postwar nation—its relationship with the United States, its place in the Americas, and its role in the global order. Brettle draws on rich caches of published and unpublished letters and diaries, Confederate national and state government documents, newspapers published in North America and England, conference proceedings, pamphlets, contemporary and scholarly articles, and more to engage the perspectives of not only modern historians but some of the most salient theorists of the Western World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. An impressive and complex undertaking, Colossal Ambitions concludes that while some Confederate commentators saw wartime industrialization as pointing toward a different economic future, most Confederates saw their society as revolving once more around coercive labor, staple crop production, and exports in the war’s wake.

Author : Adrian Brettle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0813944376

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Colossal Ambitions by Adrian Brettle Pdf

Leading politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants preached a transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy, persuading many of their compatriots to fight not merely to retain what they had but to gain their future empire. Impervious to reality, their vision of future world leadership--territorial, economic, political, and cultural--provided a vitally important, underappreciated motivation to form an independent Confederate republic. In Colossal Ambitions, Adrian Brettle explores how leading Confederate thinkers envisioned their postwar nation--its relationship with the United States, its place in the Americas, and its role in the global order. Brettle draws on rich caches of published and unpublished letters and diaries, Confederate national and state government documents, newspapers published in North America and England, conference proceedings, pamphlets, contemporary and scholarly articles, and more to engage the perspectives of not only modern historians but some of the most salient theorists of the Western World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. An impressive and complex undertaking, Colossal Ambitions concludes that while some Confederate commentators saw wartime industrialization as pointing toward a different economic future, most Confederates saw their society as revolving once more around coercive labor, staple crop production, and exports in the war's wake.

Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439105856

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Government of Our Own by William C. Davis Pdf

For four crucial months in 1861, delegates from all over the South met in Montgomery, Alabama, to establish a new nation. Davis (Jefferson Davis: The Man and the Hour, LJ 11/15/91) tells their story in this new work, another example of Davis's fine storytelling skill and an indispensable guide to understanding the formation of the Confederate government. Among the issues Davis examines are revising the Constitution to meet Southern needs, banning the importation of slaves, and determining whether the convention could be considered a congress. Also revealed are the many participating personalities, their ambitions and egos, politicking and lobbying for the presidency of the new nation, and the nature of the city of Montgomery itself.

Author : William L. Lang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0295975024

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Confederacy of Ambition by William L. Lang Pdf

William Lang’s account of William Winlock Miller and the first quarter century of Washington’s history offers a new view of the pioneer era, emphasizing that the West was developed in large measure by men like Miller who manipulated government and its resources to their own and the region’s advantage.

Author : Jon L. Wakelyn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313010774

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Confederates against the Confederacy by Jon L. Wakelyn Pdf

Far from being a monolith with unanimous leadership loyalty to the cause of a separate nation, the Confederacy was in reality deeply divided over how to achieve independence. Many supposedly loyal leaders, civilian as well as elected officials, opposed governmental policies on the national and state levels, and their actions ultimately influenced non-support for military policies. Congressional differences over arming the slaves and bureaucratic squabbles over how to conduct the war disrupted the government and Cabinet of President Jefferson Davis. Rumors of such irreconcilable differences spread throughout the South, contributing to an overall decline in morale and support for the war effort and causing the Confederacy to come apart from within. When asked to make sacrifices, civilian leaders found themselves caught in the dilemma of either aiding the Confederacy or losing money through poor utilization of slave labor. To sustain profits, the business and planter classes often traded with the enemy. Upon consideration of arming the slaves, many members of Congress proclaimed that the war effort was not worth the demise of slavery and preferred instead to take their chances with the Northern government. Cultural leaders, clergy, newspapermen, and men of letters claimed their loyalty to the war effort, but often criticized government policies in public. By asking for financial support and instituting a military draft, the national government infuriated local patriots who wanted to defend their own states more than they desired to defeat the enemy.

Author : George C. Rable
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0807821446

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The Confederate Republic by George C. Rable Pdf

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 b

Author : Sir James Mackintosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UVA:X030153784

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The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh by Sir James Mackintosh Pdf

Author : Robert I. Curtis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476692616

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Sheet Music of the Confederacy by Robert I. Curtis Pdf

The creation of the Confederate States of America and the subsequent Civil War inspired composers, lyricists, and music publishers in Southern and border states, and even in foreign countries, to support the new nation. Confederate-imprint sheet music articulated and encouraged Confederate nationalism, honored soldiers and military leaders, comforted family and friends, and provided diversion from the hardships of war. This is the first comprehensive history of the sheet music of the Confederacy. It covers works published before the war in Southern states that seceded from the Union, and those published during the war in Union occupied capitals, border and Northern states, and foreign countries. It is also the first work to examine the contribution of postwar Confederate-themed sheet music to the South's response to its defeat, to the creation and fostering of Lost Cause themes, and to the promotion of national reunion and reconciliation.

Author : Coleman Hutchison
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820337319

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Apples and Ashes by Coleman Hutchison Pdf

Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures, especially those of the United States and Britain. Thus, Coleman Hutchison argues, it has profound implications for our understanding of American literary nationalism and the relationship between literature and nationalism more broadly. Apples and Ashes is organized by genre, with each chapter using a single text or a small set of texts to limn a broader aspect of Confederate literary culture. Hutchison discusses an understudied and diverse archive of literary texts including the literary criticism of Edgar Allan Poe; southern responses to Uncle Tom's Cabin; the novels of Augusta Jane Evans; Confederate popular poetry; the de facto Confederate national anthem, “Dixie”; and several postwar southern memoirs. In addition to emphasizing the centrality of slavery to the Confederate literary imagination, the book also considers a series of novel topics: the reprinting of European novels in the Confederate South, including Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Victor Hugo's Les Misérables; Confederate propaganda in Europe; and postwar Confederate emigration to Latin America. In discussing literary criticism, fiction, poetry, popular song, and memoir, Apples and Ashes reminds us of Confederate literature's once-great expectations. Before their defeat and abjection—before apples turned to ashes in their mouths—many Confederates thought they were in the process of creating a nation and a national literature that would endure.

Author : Charles P. Roland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226724515

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The Confederacy by Charles P. Roland Pdf

The Confederacy was never single-minded. From the fateful year of 1861 until Appomattox, the South was a complex of heroism and cowardice, grief and frivolity, nationalism and state rights. But at the same time the Southern nation underwent a complete career from birth through maturity to death. In The Confederacy Charles P. Roland is faithful to both the larger career and the internal complexity. Paying careful attention to President Davis' struggle against dividing forces within, the author skillfully narrates the attempt of the Confederacy to wage total war against superior forces. All the poignant events and conditions are here: the formation of the government, the upper South's final commitment to the cause, the doomed attempts to combat the Northern blockade at home and Northern diplomacy overseas, an agrarian economy's heroic defiance of an industrial enemy, the desperate measures by which the Davis government tried to sustain the Confederacy, and, at last, the dissolution and flight of the administration in 1865. With accuracy, sensitivity, and balance, Mr. Roland develops the epic themes of his story against a background of vivid historical detail and re-creates the Confederacy with a tragic splendor—the prime quality of its surviving image among Southerners.

Author : Stacey Jean Klein
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570037043

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Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy by Stacey Jean Klein Pdf

A look at the life and prolific writings of Stonewall Jackson's sister-in-law

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1302 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : UGA:32108056857231

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Confederate Veteran by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Alfred Pollard
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 9785883094995

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Life of Jefferson Davis, with a secret history of the Southern Confederacy by Edward Alfred Pollard Pdf

Gathered "behind the scenes in Richmond." Containing curious and extraordinary information of the principal southern characters in the late war, in connection with President Davis, and in relation to the various intrigues of his administration.

Author : Frances Harding Casstevens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 078641300X

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Clingman's Brigade in the Confederacy, 1862-1865 by Frances Harding Casstevens Pdf

On November 11, 1862, Brigadier General Thomas Lanier Clingman, despite a lack of formal military training, was named commander of four regiments sent to North Carolina to prevent Federal troops from making further inroads into the state. Clingman has been called one of North Carolina's most colorful and controversial statesmen, but his military career received little attention from his contemporaries and has been practically ignored by later historians. This work determines the effect Clingman's Brigade had on various battles and in various defensive positions. It also corrects falsehoods by providing a more accurate portrayal of Clingman, the brigade, and the problems it faced. Chapters are devoted to Clingman in his civilian life and his military life, battles fought by the brigade, and the four regiments. Appendices include Clingman's two order books (detailing general and specific orders), a roster of his officers, and miscellaneous letters.

Author : Edward Alfred Pollard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : YALE:39002009945784

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Life of Jefferson Davis, with a Seceret History of the Southern Confederacy, Gathered "behind the Scenes in Richmond." by Edward Alfred Pollard Pdf