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

By Robert E. May

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807111880
• ISBN13: 9780807111888
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 465 Pages