ebooks The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana by Roderick A. McDonald in History

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The Politics of Command reevaluates the continual controversy over strategy that occurred between Jefferson Davis and his high command; and within the command itself. Thomas Lawrence Connelly and Archer Jones illustrate how Davis' decisions were affected by officers in the field; politicians; the considerable clout of the western bloc and its network of informal associations; the input of Robert E. Lee; the pressure brought to bear by P.G.T. Beauregard; and Davis' own changing concept of the departmental command system. Connelly and Jones were the first to realize that any significant assessment of Davis' strategy must examine those who influenced him; for his key decisions were products of the politics of command.