Emory M. Thomas - The Confederacy as a revolutionary experience
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Copyright 1971 Emory M. Thomas Preface copyright 1991 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
First published 1971 by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N. J.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Thomas, Emory M., 1939 The Confederacy as a revolutionary experience / Emory M. Thomas. p. cm. Reprint. Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, c1971. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87249-780-1 1. Confederate States of America. I. Title. E487.T48 1991 973.7'13dc20 91-10406
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For "Tom" and John
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Contents
Preface
ix
Preface to the First Edition
xix
1. Quest for the Quintessential South
1
2. Secession A Revolution of Sorts
23
3. Conventional Men and Revolutionary War
43
4. The Davis Administration and State Rights The Political Revolution
58
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5. Cotton to Cannon The Economic Revolution
79
6. Mint Juleps to Minie Balls The Social Revolution
100
7. Black Confederates Slavery and Wartime
119
8. Honest to Clio The Confederate Revolutions
133
Selected Bibliography
139
Index
145
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Preface
It began with ice cream, or rather the absence of ice cream, on a warm spring evening in 1969 in Athens, Georgia. I left home with a mission, a quick trip to the ice cream store with requests for cups of various flavors from my wife and two young sons.
Somewhere en route, on Westlake Drive I think, some disparate ideas converged in my mind to form the thesis of this book. By the time I returned home with the ice cream, I was excited about more than French vanilla and blueberry cheesecake.
Those disparate ideas about the Confederate experience were on my mind because of a Civil War class I had recently taught at the University of Georgia. I had posed the importance of Confederate nationalism and attempted to analyze the nascent Southern nation with thirty undergraduate students. Those students responded with challenging questions and comments, and the class became a wonderful community of engaged individuals. I remember a very free exchange of ideas and "open season" on the instructor. An extraordinary number of essays on the final exam began, "I contend.... " Now after twenty years, a number of names and term paper topics from that class are still familiar. And I remain in touch with three students, John Willey, Joe Wilkinson, and Nick Wynne.
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Conventional wisdom in academe holds that research and writing promote better teaching. I believe this wisdom. I also believe its converse: teaching inspires research and writing. In this case that Civil War class had a lot to do with the ideas which became The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience.
Those ideas became this book in large measure because of Robert P. Fenyo who was then history editor at Prentice-Hall. Bob Fenyo became intrigued with my five-page prospectus and took a chance on the project. He sent the prospectus and later the manuscript to outstanding scholars for their reactions and then had the courage to ignore negative comments and to embrace positive responses.
I completed the manuscript on April 12the anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumterin 1970. In December 1970, I first beheld the hot-pink dust jacket; the original copyright date was 1971.
During the two decades since The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience appeared in print, many changes have overtaken the people and circumstances associated with the inception of the book. My wife and I have moved twice within Athens, and those "young sons" are now independent people who live elsewhere. Bob Fenyo is no longer working with history books; Prentice-Hall is now part of Simon and Schuster.
The students in that seminal Civil War class could not remain undergraduates forever. Nick Wynne is now on the other side of the desk at the University of South Florida. John Willey became the Sage of Rangoon and now is a college administrator in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Joe Wilkinson became a Republican.
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