A Consuming Fire - The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South

Informationen zum Autor EUGENE D. GENOVESE (1930-2012) was one of the most influential, and controversial, historians of his time. He was the author of several books, including Roll, Jordan, Roll , for which he won the Bancroft Prize; The Southern Tradition; and The Southern Front . Klappentext A leading historian examines the white Southern Christian response to slavery, military defeat, and emancipation. "A Consuming Fire" analyzes the strength, weakness, and failure of the struggle for reform and the nature and significance of Southern Christian orthodoxy and its vision of a proper social order, class structure, and race relations.

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• Authors: Eugene Genovese, Eugene D Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2009
• EAN: 9780820333441
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3344-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Mercer University Lamar Memori; Mercer University Lamar Memori
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous