Michael Brem Bonner, Confederate Political Economy: Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist Nation (Louisiana State University Press, 2016).
Nicholas Guyatt, Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation (Basic Books, 2016).
Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).
D. Peter MacLeod, Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution (Knopf, 2016).
Christopher Phillips, The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Ben Wilson, Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age (Basic Books, 2016).
My copy of The Rivers Run Backwards arrives tomorrow. I’m really looking forward to reading it. it promises to be a major contribution to study of the Civil War’s borderlands.
MacLeod’s Northern Armageddon also looks interesting.
Looking forward to diving into both books.