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The first chapter focuses on the movement to Virginia of both the Confederate capital and the men who would make up the Confederate army, arguing that such motion reversed decades of migration out of Virginia and brought the Confederate state into being. A second chapter tracks the Army of Northern Virginia on the march.

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The third chapter charts the flight of white refugees away from the Union army and black refugees toward the occupying force. Finally, a fourth chapter describes the Confederacy falling apart as soldiers and eventually even the Confederate president took to the roads, before a final epilogue considers questions of memory.

Uniting all of these groups, individuals, and experiences was the physical suffering involved in wartime movement, and in that shared suffering resides one important theme: In Sternhell's telling, the motion of war overpowered distinctions of race, class, and gender.

Rich and poor, white and black, men and women, powerful and powerless, all suffered as they ran to or from upheaval. Sternhell tries to stop short of claiming that mobility erased distinctions by calling black and white mobility "parallel yet inverted processes," but the book culminates with the image of a frightened Jefferson Davis, stripped of his slaves, stripped of his power, running through the woods until hunted down by dogs who might once have chased runaway slaves, which makes the point that however mightily white southerners strove to maintain the categories of race, class, and gender that ordered their world, startlingly similar experiences drew southerners together, like it or not While in some ways the book calls to mind the emphasis Stephanie McCurry places on suffering in Confederate Reckoning , the difference is that for McCurry, suffering itself made and unmade the Confederate state, while for Sternhell suffering was an important side effect of motion, but it was the motion that did the making and unmaking.

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Sternhell enters the historiographical conversation about whether the Civil War resulted in more continuity or change with a strong vote for "enormous, breathtaking change," but highly contested change carefully posited rather than triumphal change boldly asserted If you originally registered with a username please use that to sign in. To purchase short term access, please sign in to your Oxford Academic account above. Don't already have an Oxford Academic account?


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Routes of War

Desperate to lure the Allies into battle, Napoleon gave every indication in the days preceding the engagement that the French army was surrendering, even abandoning the dominant Pratzen Heights near Austerlitz. It is often used in sports to describe a blowout. In English common law , a rout is a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons, acting together in a manner that suggests an intention to riot , although they do not carry out the inferred act.

Rout is personified as the eponymous deity in Homer's Iliad as the cowardly son of Ares. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the surname, see Rout surname. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.

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