John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader (Southern Biography Series)

John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader (Southern Biography Series)

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Book Description
The first critical biography of Quitman, May's study sheds light on such current historical controversies as whether antebellum southerners were particuliarly militaristic or "antibourgeois" and helps illuminate the slave-master relations, mobility, intraregional class and geographic friction, partisan politics, and family customs of the Old South.

John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader (Southern Biography Series),Robert E. May,Louisiana State University Press,0807112070,Biography,Biography / Autobiography,Governors,Historical - U.S.,History: American,Lawyers,Legislators,Mississippi,Politics and government,Quitman, John Anthony,To 1865,United States,United States - Civil War

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