Bibliograph

Mastering America, Southern slaveholders and the crisis of American nationhood, Robert E. Bonner

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Mastering America, Southern slaveholders and the crisis of American nationhood, Robert E. Bonner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mastering America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

263604717

Responsibility statement

Robert E. Bonner

Series statement

Cambridge studies on the American South

Sub title

Southern slaveholders and the crisis of American nationhood

Table Of Contents

Prologue: Confederate common sense -- Slaveholders' stake in the American empire -- The compound republic and the cause of the South -- Republican masters and American mission -- Reformed slaveholders and the gospel of nationhood -- Fragments from the past, histories for the future -- Yankee apostates and allies in the American 1850s -- The anatomy of Confederate nationhood -- Reckoning with Confederate purpose -- Liberty, slavery, and the burdens of Confederation nationhood -- Epilogue: "A people brought to the end of a given cycle."

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