The Confederate Nation

1861-1865

By: Emory M. Thomas

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Paperback | 17 November 2025

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"The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject. " —Journal of Southern History, 2007

"Incisive and insightful.... As good a short history of the Southern war effort was we have." —T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln and His Generals

Emory M. Thomas's critically acclaimed chronicle of the Confederacy remains widely recognized as the standard history of the South during the Civil War. Now with a new introduction by the author, The Confederate Nation presents a high readable, highly personal portrait of the Southern experience during the Civil War. Thomas, renowned for his illuminating biographies of Robert E. Lee and other Southern generals, here delivers the definitive account of the political and military events that defined the nation during its period of greatest turmoil.

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"The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject. " -- Journal of Southern History

"The classic book on the Confederacy." -- Civil War History

"An incisive and insightful account of the Confederacy. As good a short history of the Southern war effort was we have." -- T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln and His Generals

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Non-Fiction History Military History American Civil War Regional & National History History of the Americas Travel & Holidays

Introduction to the 2011 Edition	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
The Social Economy of the Old South	p. 1
Cultural Nationalism in the Pre-Confederate South	p. 17
Foundations of the Southern Nation	p. 37
Southern Nationality Established	p. 67
Southern Nationality Confirmed	p. 98
Confederate Nationality Confounded	p. 120
Origins of the Revolutionary South	p. 145
Foreign Relations of a Nascent Nation	p. 167
The Development of the Confederate South	p. 190
The Confederate South at Full Tide	p. 215
The Disintegration of Southern Nationalism	p. 245
Death of the Nation	p. 278
Appendix: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America	p. 307
Bibliography	p. 323
Index	p. 373
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