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The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been
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The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been. By Roger L. Ransom. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2005. Pp. [xvi], 352. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-393-32911-7; cloth, $25.95, ISBN 978-0-393-05967-0.)
No sooner had the Civil War ended than disillusioned ex-Confederates insisted that its outcome could have been altered by the slightest and most innocent detours. Subsequent generations of scholars and novelists agreed. The war became fertile ground for what we now call counterfactual history. Roger L. Ransom's fascination with "what might have happened" (p. xii) began as a youth, ...
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