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The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

By: Emory M. Thomas

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The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

By: Emory M. Thomas

This volume, first published in 1971, has made us look again at the events surrounding the Civil War. The Confederate Southerners likened themselves to the American revolutionaries of 1776. Although both revolutions sought independence and the overthrow of an existing political system, the Confederates battled for a political separation to conserve rather than to create. The result, however, was a transformation of the antebellum traditions they were fighting to preserve.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643362992

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Robert E. Lee: A Biography

By: Emory M. Thomas

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Robert E. Lee: A Biography

By: Emory M. Thomas

The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of Books The life of Robert E. Lee is a story not of defeat but of triumph—triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to become the towering figure who commanded the Confederate army in the American Civil War. But late in life Lee confessed that he "was always wanting something." In this probing and personal biography, Emory Thomas reveals more than the man himself did. Robert E. Lee has been, and continues to be, a symbol and hero in the American story. But in life, Thomas writes, Lee was both more and less than his legend. Here is the man behind the legend.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039334732X

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9780393347326

The Dogs of War

1861

By: Emory M. Thomas

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The Dogs of War

1861

By: Emory M. Thomas

In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of more than half a million people. But as eminent Civil War historian Emory Thomas points out in this stimulating and provocative book, once the dogs of war are unleashed, it is almost impossible to rein them in. In The Dogs of War, Thomas highlights the delusions that dominated each side's thinking. Lincoln believed that most Southerners loved the Union, and would be dragged unwillingly into secession by the planter class. Jefferson Davis could not quite believe that Northern resolve would survive the first battle. Once the Yankees witnessed Southern determination, he hoped, they would acknowledge Confederate independence. These two leaders, in turn, reflected widely held myths. Thomas weaves his exploration of these misconceptions into a tense narrative of the months leading up to the war, from the "Great Secession Winter" to a fast-paced account of the Fort Sumter crisis in 1861. Emory M. Thomas's books demonstrate a breathtaking range of major Civil War scholarship, from The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience and the landmark The Confederate Nation, to definitive biographies of Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart. In The Dogs of War, he draws upon his lifetime of study to offer a new perspective on the outbreak of our national Iliad.

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Oxford University Press

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0199831580

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9780199831586

The Confederate State of Richmond

A Biography of the Capital

By: Emory M. Thomas

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The Confederate State of Richmond

A Biography of the Capital

By: Emory M. Thomas

In this, his first book, originally published in 1971, noted historian Emory M. Thomas offers an astute analysis of Civil War Richmond that remains unchallenged to this day. Blending official documents and city council minutes with personal diaries and newspaper accounts, Thomas vividly recounts the military, political, social, and economic experiences of the Confederate capital, providing a compelling drama of home-front war that, in Richmond's case, rivaled the spectacular events on the battlefield. One of the first studies in southern urban history, The Confederate State of Richmonddeftly demonstrates how Richmond responded to the intense demands of war and became a great capital city.

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LSU Press

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0807123196

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9780807123195

The Dogs of War

1861

By: Emory M. Thomas

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1861

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Robert E. Lee: A Biography

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The Confederate State of Richmond

A Biography of the Capital

By: Emory M. Thomas

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A Biography of the Capital

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The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

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Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester

By: Emory Washburn

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Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester

By: Emory Washburn

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

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3375103794

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The Life of J.E.B. Stuart

By: Emory M. Thomas

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The Life of J.E.B. Stuart

By: Emory M. Thomas

Jeb Stuart, leader of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, earned the admiration of his enemies during the first three years of the Civil War. Famed for his daring ride around McClellan during the Peninsula Campaign, and his raid behind Union lines in Virginia and into Maryland and Pennsylvania, he was a legend long before he was killed at Yellow Tavern in 1864.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806131934

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Robert E. Lee

An Album

By: Emory M. Thomas

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Robert E. Lee

An Album

By: Emory M. Thomas

Thomas, Regents professor at the U. of Georgia and author of a recent biography of Lee, has assembled a wealth of images and extended captions which provide a picture of Robert E. Lee and his times. He shows how people, places, objects, and events intersected and influenced Lee's life, each phase of which is introduced by overviews setting the pictures in context. The bandw and color portraits and illustrations will intrigue readers interested in the history of that era. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0393047784

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The American War and Peace, 1860-1877

By: Emory M. Thomas

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The American War and Peace, 1860-1877

By: Emory M. Thomas

The American war and peace, 1860-1877 is a stimulating view of a tragic chapter in United States history. The presentation interprets events in the light of modern scholarship and research. Its balanced coverage contains political, social and cultural insights, in addition to military facts. The book holds the reader's attention throughout and offers an absorbing glimpse of our country a century ago. --From the book cover.

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0130323918

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Robert E. Lee

An Album

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An Album

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The Confederate Nation, 1861–1865

By: Emory M. Thomas

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The Confederate Nation, 1861–1865

By: Emory M. Thomas

“The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject. ” —Journal of Southern History, 2007 “Incisive and insightful…. As good a short history of the Southern war effort was we have.” —T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln and His Generals Emory M. Thomas’s critically acclaimed chronicle of the Confederacy remains widely recognized as the standard history of the South during the Civil War. Now with a new introduction by the author, The Confederate Nation presents a high readable, highly personal portrait of the Southern experience during the Civil War. Thomas, renowned for his illuminating biographies of Robert E. Lee and other Southern generals, here delivers the definitive account of the political and military events that defined the nation during its period of greatest turmoil.

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Harper Collins

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0062069462

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The Life of J.E.B. Stuart

By: Emory M. Thomas

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The Life of J.E.B. Stuart

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Book's by Emory M. Thomas

The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Robert E. Lee: A Biography

The Dogs of War

The Dogs of War

The Confederate State of Richmond

The Confederate State of Richmond

The Dogs of War

The Dogs of War

Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Robert E. Lee: A Biography

The Confederate State of Richmond

The Confederate State of Richmond

The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester

Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester

Bold Dragoon

Bold Dragoon

Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee

The American War and Peace, 1860-1877

The American War and Peace, 1860-1877

Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee

The Confederate Nation, 1861–1865

The Confederate Nation, 1861–1865

Bold Dragoon

Bold Dragoon

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