The Self-Inflicted Wound: Southern Politics in the Nineteenth Century by Durden, Robert F.

The Self-Inflicted Wound: Southern Politics in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813160191)

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The Self-Inflicted Wound: Southern Politics in the Nineteenth Century by Durden, Robert F.

The Self-Inflicted Wound: Southern Politics in the Nineteenth Century

$15.00
The Self-Inflicted Wound: Southern Politics in the Nineteenth Century by Durden, Robert F.

The Self-Inflicted Wound: Southern Politics in the Nineteenth Century

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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The essentially tragic political fate of the American South in the nineteenth century resulted from what Robert F. Durden calls a """"self-inflicted wound""""-the gradual surrender of the white majority to the pride, fears, and hates of racism. In this gracefully written and closely reasoned study, Durden traces the course of southern political life from the predominantly optimistic, nationalistic Jeffersonian era to the sullenly sectional, chronically defensive decades following the Civil War. Pol

Author: Robert F. Durden
ISBN-10: 0813160197
ISBN-13: 9780813160191
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.37d
By Robert F. Durden
By Robert F. Durden
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Robert F. Durden is professor of history at Duke University and the author of a number of books on the history of the South.

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