mccurry2010

@Book{ mccurry2010,
	author = {Stephanie McCurry},
	title = {Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South},
	address = {Cambridge, Mass.},
	publisher = {Harvard University Press},
	year = 2010,
}

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It is no exaggeration to say that the literature on the Confederacy has long been characterized—and limited—by a preoccupation with the matter of military defeat and related questions about the strength or weakness of Confederate nationalism. The question of why the South lost the Civil War is hardly a minor one. But the preoccupation with defeat has made it difficult to ask other questions about the slaveholders’ war and the profound changes it propelled in Southern and American political history.