Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199335398)

In Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth R. Varon argues that Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to the region. And that Confederates, fighting to establish an independent slaveholding republic, were determined to preempt, discredit, and silence Yankee appeals to the Southern masses. Interweaving military and social history, Varon shows how the Union's politics of deliverance helped it to win the war but also ultimately sowed the seeds of postwar discord

Author: Elizabeth R. Varon
ISBN-10: 0199335397
ISBN-13: 9780199335398
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 02/21/2020
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2021