The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865 by Emory M. Thomas published by Harper & Row, 1979. Stated First Edition.

Hard boards, original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, blind embossed Harper logo on the front board [a little wear, slightly wavy boards, spine fading]; 6" x 8.3/4"; 384 pages including Index, cream color paper + one blocks with illustrations on glossy, very good condition.

"We have for years needed a serious, scholarly, readable work on the Confederate nation that rounds up modem scholarship and offers a fresh and detached view of the whole subject. This work fills that order admirably ... [Thomas] sensibly and deftly integrates the course of Southern military fortunes with the concerns that shaped them and were shaped by them. In doing so he also manages to convey a sense of how the war itself deteriorated from something spirited and gallant to something base and mean and modern on both sides." [from a review]

"The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject.”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." [review]

"Thomas's masterful account delivers a clear analysis of the origins of secession, a gripping narrative of the military campaigns that shaped the Civil War, and a compelling portrait of the Southern people during the country's most turbulent era. Now featuring a new introduction by the author, The Confederate Nation is the quintessential exploration of the American South in the Civil War years."

Emory M. Thomas is Regents Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Georgia. He is the author of eight books, including acclaimed biographies of the Confederate generals J. E. B. Stuart and Robert E. Lee. He lives in Athens, Georgia.

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