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Civil war historical literature is enormous, covering, it would seem, every facet of the drama, and still there is no sign that the field has been played out. Of course, many new studies do little more than provide additional details about one or another event or actor in the story, thereby adding primarily to the quantity of our detailed knowledge. But others add to the quality of our understanding by providing new ways of looking at the familiar or by investigating developments which had hitherto been considered of little or no importance. Two recent books fall into the latter category: Raimondo Luraghi, The Rise and Fall of the Phntation South1 and J. Mills Thornton III, Politics and Power ina Síaue Society: Ahbama, 1800-1860.2 It would be difficult to imagine two books dealing with the same general subject more different in scope and emphasis. Luraghi, an Italian historian who has researched extensively in the United States and has written widely on the American Civil War,3 peers at the South with the eyes of a European using a wide-angled lens, shifting its focus broadly over time and space. Something of the breadth and range of Luraghi's vision may be seen in the first paragr

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Author

Woodman, Harold D.

Publisher

Project MUSE; Kent State University (ISSN 1533-6271)

Published

1979

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences