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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009. Militant South, 1800-1861. Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956 (OCoLC)582116872 Online version: Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009. Militant South, 1800-1861. Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956 (OCoLC)609313601 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Hope Franklin |
ISBN: | 0674574508 9780674574502 |
OCLC Number: | 476962 |
Description: | 317 pages 22 cm |
Contents: | Background of violence -- Fighter's fatherland -- Personal warfare -- A militant gentry -- Defending the conerstone -- Militant expansionism -- A little learning -- West points of the south -- The citizen soldiery -- Literary and social echoes -- Toward a unified south -- Ready to fight. |
Responsibility: | John Hope Franklin. |
Abstract:
In "The Militant South, 1800-1861", John Hope Franklin identifies the factors and causes of the South's festering propensity for aggression that contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. Franklin asserts that the South was dominated by militant white men who resorted to violence in the face of social, personal, or political conflict. Fueled by their defense of slavery and a persistent desire to keep the North out of their affairs, Southerners adopted a vicious bellicosity that intensified as war drew nearer. Drawing from Southern newspapers, government archives, memoirs, letters, and firsthand accounts, Franklin masterfully details the sources and consequences of antebellum aggression in the South. This classic volume is an enduring and impeccably researched contribution to Southern history.
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