{"product_id":"civil-war-alabama-9780817360054","title":"Civil War Alabama","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA landmark book that sheds invigorating new light on the causes, the course, and the outcomes in Alabama of America's greatest drama and trauma. Based on twenty years of exhaustive research, \u003cem\u003eCivil War Alabama\u003c\/em\u003e presents compelling new explanations for how Alabama's white citizens came to take up arms against the federal government.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot since Walter Lynwood Fleming's partisan Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama (1905) has there been a broad history of this state's Civil War experience. To be sure, there is no dearth of recent books and articles on specific aspects of the war and its vivid personalities and legacies - from the Battle of Mobile Bay to Gen. Josiah Gorgas' herculean efforts to keep the Confederacy in powder and shot - but not one since Fleming has attempted to wrap it all into one package.\" - \u003ci\u003eAlabama Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Exhaustively researched, skillfully compiled, and engagingly written, McIlwain's impressive volume is a service to scholars searching for greater detail and support for their own work, as well as Alabamians hoping to understand exactly how their state could fall into the grip of destructive demagogues and ruinous rebellion.\" - \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCivil War Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most interesting and provocative studies of a Confederate state that has appeared in recent years. McIlwain presents an impressive amount of fresh research and information that advances a number of striking and controversial interpretations.\" - George C. Rable, author of\u003ci\u003e God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McIlwain has produced an engaging, often witty, and always informative study of the development of Reconstructionist thought in Alabama. This is a topic that has only recently garnered serious attention, and so McIlwain stands as one of its pioneers.\" - Ben H. Severance, author of\u003ci\u003e Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Alabama in the Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTennessee's Radical Army: The State Guard and Its Role in Reconstruction, 1867-1869\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword by G. Ward Hubbs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I. Alabama Secedes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. The \"Lawyers' Revolution\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. \"A Leap in the Dark\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3 \"There Will Be a Revulsion\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II. The War Begins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4 \"Sprinkle Blood in the Face of the People\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5 \"Food for Sad and Gloomy Fits\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6 Evil Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III The Decree of the Nation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7 \"Yankeeizing Southerners\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8 \"The Struggle of the Masters\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart IV The Hard War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9 The Destroying Angels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10 The Reconstructionists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11 The Slaughter Pen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12 The River of Death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart V In Search of Peace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13 \"God Close This Terrible War\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14 War Eagle!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15 The Horrors of the Black Flag\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart VI Bowing Down to Mars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16 \"Retrograde Movements\" and \"Backward Advances\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17 Rousseau's Raid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 18 The Fall of Mobile Bay and Atlanta\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart VII The Death Throes of a Rebellion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 19 \"On the Wrong Side of the Line of Battle\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 20 \"Rats to Your Holes\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 21 \"Balls and Parties Are All the Rage\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 22 Franklin, Nashville, and Disintegration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart VIII \"The Holocaust\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 23 \"Ne-Gotiation\" or \"Ne-Grotiation\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 24 \"The Day of Jubilee Am Come!\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 25 Conclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038585880919,"sku":"9780817360054","price":26.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780817360054.jpg?v=1750940770","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/civil-war-alabama-9780817360054","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}