Carolinian Crucible

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Reforging Class, Family, and Nation in Confederate South Carolina

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Patrick J. Doyle, University of London) Doyle, Patrick J. (Royal Holloway

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-31
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies on the American South
Antal sidor260
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009550499

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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.

'This bold reconsideration of class and family in civil war South Carolina offers an assessment of the economy and society particularly in the upcountry. Drawing on extensive research, Doyle examines the role of 'common whites' and contextualizes the intricacies—and perplexities- of white cohesion during wartime.' Orville Vernon Burton, Clemson University, and author of Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court