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Starving the South : How the North Won the Civil War by Andrew F. Smith (2011, E-book)

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?".

Book Title
Starving the South : How the North Won the Civil War
Author
Andrew F. Smith
Format
eBook
Language
English
Topic
Military / United States, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Industries / Food Industry, History
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Cooking, Business & Economics, History
Number of Pages
304 Pages

Reviews
"Food historian Smith chronicles the devastation wrought by the Union blockade and the cutoff of Northern agricultural trade on the South, whose farm economy was based on cotton and tobacco ... Smith's lucid study gives war production, logistics, and home front morale in the Civil War the prominence they deserve." - Publishers Weekly
eBook Format
Open eBook,Epub
Copyright Date
2011
Dewey Decimal
973.7/1
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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