Carolinian Crucible : Reforging Class, Family, and Nation in Confederate South Carolina (Cambridge Studies on the American South)

Doyle, Patrick J.

Cambridge University Press（2025/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 260 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009550499

Full Description

Carolinian Crucible tells the story of South Carolina - particularly its upcountry region - at war. A state notorious for its political radicalism before the Civil War, this book avoids caricaturing the Palmetto State's inhabitants as unflinching Confederate zealots, and instead provides a more fine-grained appraisal of their relationship with the new nation that their state's political elite played a leading role in birthing. It does so by considering the outlook and actions of both civilians and soldiers, with special attention given to those who were lower-class 'common whites.' In this richly detailed account, Patrick J. Doyle reveals how a region that was insulated from Federal invasion was not insulated from the disruptions of war; how social class profoundly shaped the worldview of ordinary folk, yet did not lead to a rejection of the slaveholders' republic; and how people in the Civil War South forged meaningful bonds with the Confederate nation, but buckled at times under the demands of diehard nationalism.

Contents

Dedication; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. 'A unanimity never before witnessed': late antebellum society and the path to secession; 2. 'Like the stone of sisyphus': mobilization; 3. 'The time for conducting this war leisurely has passed: conscription; 4. 'It will take a man person with you to... keep the place up': family, gender, and the household; 5. 'A most unhappy condition of things among a people heretofore perhaps the most loyal': desertion, disaffection, and disloyalty; Conclusion; Final reflections; Notes; Bibliography.