Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War. Andrew F. Smith

Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War



Download Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War



Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War Andrew F. Smith ebook
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Page: 304
ISBN: 9780312601812


A historian’s new look at how Union blockades brought about the defeat of a hungry Confederacy In April 1861, Lincoln ordered a blockade of Southern ports used by the Confederacy for cotton and tobacco exporting as well as for the importation of food. The Army of the Confederacy grew thin while Union dinner tables groaned and Northern canning operations kept Grant’s army strong. In Starving the South, Andrew Smith takes a gastronomical look at the war’s outcome and legacy. While the war split the country in a way that still affects race and politics today, it also affected the way we eat: It transformed local markets into nationalized food suppliers, forced the development of a Northern canning industry, established Thanksgiving as a national holiday and forged the first true national cuisine from the recipes of emancipated slaves who migrated north. On the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sumter, Andrew Smith is the first to ask “Did hunger defeat the Confederacy?”.

MORE EBOOKS:
A Rare Sensation (Silhouette Desire #1633) read
online The three-body problem
Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life download pdf
Download Treasures from Heaven: Relics From Noah's Ark to the Shroud of Turin pdf







Tags: Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War ebook pdf djvu epub
Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War download pdf epub djvu
Download Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War free ebook pdf
Read Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War online book
Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War cheap ebook for kindle and nook
Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War download book
Andrew F. Smith ebooks
Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War download pdf rapidshare mediafire fileserve 4shared torrent