For generations, Civil War historians have debated the causes of our great national conflict. They have argued about the centrality of slavery to disunion, the nature of master-slave relations in the Old South, and the impact of the war on postbellum race relations, politics, and culture. Slavery, Secession, and Southern History advances these and other debates by bringing together ten original interpretive essays by twelve prominent scholars.
Perhaps no historian has had greater impact on the study of the antebellum South during the past quarter century than Eugene Genovese. The authors...
For generations, Civil War historians have debated the causes of our great national conflict. They have argued about the centrality of slavery to disu...
A collection of ten essays by 12 scholars on the American Civil War. They debate issues surrounding the centrality of slavery to disunion, the nature of master-slave relations in the Old South, and the impact of the war on postbellum race relations, politics and culture.
A collection of ten essays by 12 scholars on the American Civil War. They debate issues surrounding the centrality of slavery to disunion, the nature ...
Recognized since its initial publication in 1926 as a watershed in American historiography, Avery Odelle Craven's study of soil depletion in Virginia and Maryland links elements of Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis, causal aspects of the expansion of slavery, and the economics of staple-crop production into a unified view of southern history from the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War. In this volume Craven initiates a discussion that has changed the way historians view the relationship between historical events and the physical environment. Using Maryland and Virginia as a...
Recognized since its initial publication in 1926 as a watershed in American historiography, Avery Odelle Craven's study of soil depletion in Virginia ...
In this volume of The Annals, the contributors explore their individual subjects within common understanding of the term "globalization." There is agreement that the term refers to the consequences of two phenomena that, in combination, have resulted in what David Harvey calls the global "compression of time and space." The first phenomenon is technological changes in the processing and dissemination of information related to finance and production. The second is the international spread of the technical competence necessary to use these advances...
In this volume of The Annals, the contributors explore their individual subjects within common understanding of th...
In this volume of The Annals, the contributors explore their individual subjects within common understanding of the term "globalization." There is agreement that the term refers to the consequences of two phenomena that, in combination, have resulted in what David Harvey calls the global "compression of time and space." The first phenomenon is technological changes in the processing and dissemination of information related to finance and production. The second is the international spread of the technical competence necessary to use these advances...
In this volume of The Annals, the contributors explore their individual subjects within common understanding of th...
