Reluctant Rebels

Reluctant Rebels
Author: Kenneth W. Noe
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2010-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807895636

After the feverish mobilization of secession had faded, why did Southern men join the Confederate army? Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performance of "later enlisters." He offers a nuanced view of men who have often been cast as less patriotic and less committed to the cause, rekindling the debate over who these later enlistees were, why they joined, and why they stayed and fought. Noe refutes the claim that later enlisters were more likely to desert or perform poorly in battle and reassesses the argument that they were less ideologically savvy than their counterparts who enlisted early in the conflict. He argues that kinship and neighborhood, not conscription, compelled these men to fight: they were determined to protect their families and property and were fueled by resentment over emancipation and pillaging and destruction by Union forces. But their age often combined with their duties to wear them down more quickly than younger men, making them less effective soldiers for a Confederate nation that desperately needed every able-bodied man it could muster. Reluctant Rebels places the stories of individual soldiers in the larger context of the Confederate war effort and follows them from the initial optimism of enlistment through the weariness of battle and defeat.

Rebel Governance in Civil War

Rebel Governance in Civil War
Author: Ana Arjona
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316432386

This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including political science, sociology, and anthropology, the book provides in-depth case studies of specific conflicts as well as comparative studies of multiple conflicts. Among other themes, the book examines why and how some rebels establish both structures and practices of rule, the role of ideology, cultural, and material factors affecting rebel governance strategies, the impact of governance on the rebel/civilian relationship, civilian responses to rebel rule, the comparison between modes of state and non-state governance to rebel attempts to establish political order, the political economy of rebel governance, and the decline and demise of rebel governance attempts.

Rebels on the Border

Rebels on the Border
Author: Aaron Astor
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807143006

Rebels on the Border offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the "borderland" between the free North and the Confederate South. As a result, Rebels on the Border deepens and enhances understanding of the sectional conflict, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. After slaves in central Kentucky and Missouri gained their emancipation, author Aaron Astor contends, they transformed informal kin and social networks of resistance against slavery into more formalized processes of electoral participation and institution building. At the same time, white politics in Kentucky's Bluegrass and Missouri's Little Dixie underwent an electoral realignment in response to the racial and social revolution caused by the war and its aftermath. Black citizenship and voting rights provoked a violent white reaction and a cultural reinterpretation of white regional identity. After the war, the majority of wartime Unionists in the Bluegrass and Little Dixie joined former Confederate guerrillas in the Democratic Party in an effort to stifle the political ambitions of former slaves. Rebels on the Border is not simply a story of bitter political struggles, partisan guerrilla warfare, and racial violence. Like no other scholarly account of Kentucky and Missouri during the Civil War, it places these two crucial heartland states within the broad context of local, southern, and national politics.

Rebels Resurgent

Rebels Resurgent
Author: William K. Goolrick
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1985
Genre: Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
ISBN: 9780809447480

Discusses the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and events surrounding it.

Star Wars Rebels: Rise of the Rebels

Star Wars Rebels: Rise of the Rebels
Author: Michael Kogge
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2014-08-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1484702840

Meet Ezra and the Rebels crew! Your favorite Star Wars Rebels heroes are ready to fight the evil Empire! Kanan, Hera, and trusty old Chopper battle TIE fighters while Sabine uses her artistic talents to outsmart Stormtroopers. Zeb never misses an opportunity to take down troopers, and Ezra scores a special souvenir at the crash site of an Imperial fighter.

Rebel Yell

Rebel Yell
Author: S. C. Gwynne
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1451673302

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero. Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon—even Robert E. Lee—he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country’s greatest military figures. In April 1862, however, he was merely another Confederate general in an army fighting what seemed to be a losing cause. But by June he had engineered perhaps the greatest military campaign in American history and was one of the most famous men in the Western world. Jackson’s strategic innovations shattered the conventional wisdom of how war was waged; he was so far ahead of his time that his techniques would be studied generations into the future. In his “magnificent Rebel Yell…S.C. Gwynne brings Jackson ferociously to life” (New York Newsday) in a swiftly vivid narrative that is rich with battle lore, biographical detail, and intense conflict among historical figures. Gwynne delves deep into Jackson’s private life and traces Jackson’s brilliant twenty-four-month career in the Civil War, the period that encompasses his rise from obscurity to fame and legend; his stunning effect on the course of the war itself; and his tragic death, which caused both North and South to grieve the loss of a remarkable American hero.

Rebels in a Rotten State

Rebels in a Rotten State
Author: Kieran Mitton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190241586

Uses Sierra Leone as a case study in our understanding of the brutal nature of modern conflict

How Insurgency Begins

How Insurgency Begins
Author: Janet I. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2020-09-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108479669

Why do only some incipient rebel groups become viable challengers to governments? Only those that control local rumor networks survive.

The Fates of African Rebels

The Fates of African Rebels
Author: Christopher Day
Publisher:
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2019
Genre: Africa
ISBN: 9781626377646

Explores the relationship between rebel groups and regime politics in Africa--Provided by publisher.

Rebels at the Gate

Rebels at the Gate
Author: W Lesser
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2005-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1402228740

Robert E. Lee's first defeats and the battles that shaped the Civil War.