Rable, Civil Wars - Women And The Crisis Of Southern Nationalism

Abstract

Despite the enormous quantity of Confederate historiographical material, every now and then a fresh piece of solid scholarship appears and enhances our knowledge of this painful period of American history even more. Civil Wars is such a book. Topically, Civil Wars is kindred to Bell Wiley's 1975 path-charting volume, Confederate Women. But when the two tomes are compared, Civil Wars easily emerges as the new standard work in the field because of its breadth, scope, and analytical quality.