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What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History

The past of the American South, with its peculiarities of tragic proportions-a system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at the Union, poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced development-is fertile ground for great works of history. Here in wide-ranging essays, today's foremost Southern historian turns over the rich soil of life in the South.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 222
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780393059472
  • Genres
  • history
  • Release date
  • 2005