Routes of War

Yael A. Sternhell

“Sternhell has written a pioneering study of the creation and downfall of the Confederacy. This original, imaginative, and persuasive book—a must have for any U.S. history collection—will transform understanding of the Civil War. The author posits that incessant motion between battlefields, plantations, and other traditional sites of Civil War history shaped the Confederate South and shook the region to its foundations, ultimately transforming it forever.”—E.M. Thomas, Choice

“Imaginative, innovative, dug from new kinds of research, informed by an international perspective, and written with verve and persuasion, this book delivers a new and lasting analytical narrative of the nature and meaning of emancipation in America and how the Civil War reshaped our moral and spatial imagination.”—David W. Blight, author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era

“This book truly transforms the way we think about the Civil War. In eloquent prose and with exceptional skill, Sternhell makes clear why the wartime movement of the South’s people—civilians, slaves, armies—literally shook the South to its foundations.”—W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past

“Exploring the concepts of space and movement, Sternhell brings disparate elements of the population into play and reveals patterns even veteran students of the conflict will find fascinating and instructive.”—Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Union War

“Yael Sternhell has written the most original and innovative study of the creation and ultimate dissolution of Confederate nationalism that has yet appeared.”—James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom

“The visual language of people on the move is the leitmotif of this splendid book, a major contribution to the historical literature not only of the Civil War but of those catastrophes which followed it.”—Jay Winter, Yale University

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