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Secession Winter explores the fact of contingency and reminds readers and students that nothing was foreordained.

Trade Review
This slim but stimulating collection... deserves a wide audience. -- Jeremy Neely Journal of Southern History [ Secession Winter] should be attractive for use in undergraduate courses on the Civil War era. -- Stanley Harrold The Historian

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jarod Roll
Introduction: The Secession Crisis as a Study in Conflict Resolution
Rush to Disaster: Secession and the Slaves' Revenge
"Save in Defense of My Native State": A New Look at Robert E. Lee's Decision to Join the Confederacy
The Shadow of the Past: Collective Memory and the Coming of the American Civil War
Conclusion: Conflicted Minds andCivil War Causation
Notes
Guide to Further Reading
Index

Secession Winter

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    A Hardback by Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, Elizabeth R. Varon

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/06/2013
      ISBN13: 9781421408958, 978-1421408958
      ISBN10: 1421408953

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Secession Winter explores the fact of contingency and reminds readers and students that nothing was foreordained.

      Trade Review
      This slim but stimulating collection... deserves a wide audience. -- Jeremy Neely Journal of Southern History [ Secession Winter] should be attractive for use in undergraduate courses on the Civil War era. -- Stanley Harrold The Historian

      Table of Contents

      Foreword by Jarod Roll
      Introduction: The Secession Crisis as a Study in Conflict Resolution
      Rush to Disaster: Secession and the Slaves' Revenge
      "Save in Defense of My Native State": A New Look at Robert E. Lee's Decision to Join the Confederacy
      The Shadow of the Past: Collective Memory and the Coming of the American Civil War
      Conclusion: Conflicted Minds andCivil War Causation
      Notes
      Guide to Further Reading
      Index

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