Uncommonly Savage

Paul D. Escott is the Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest University and author of numerous books, including Slavery Remembered, Many Excellent People, ""What Shall We Do With the Negro?"" and The Confederacy.

In crisp prose, Escott successfully shows how inertia ruled in both postwar societies, but also how change eroded continuity."" - Choice""An engaging success. . . . This book, well-written and supported by solid evidence, contributes to comparative military history, the history of memory and commemoration, and the historiographies of both the American Civil War and Spanish Civil War."" - Civil War History""A nice discussion of the similarities of the two civil wars [and] an excellent discussion of five great dissimilarities between the outcome."" - Journal of America's Military Past""Breaks new ground. A uniquely comparative work that looks at the two civil wars in diachronic comparative perspective."" - Journal of American History""An intellectual tour de force….[that] presents a compelling interpretation of what happens in the South after the Civil War."" - Civil War Book Review""While we might think of the American Civil War as unique in a number of ways. . . Escott presents a corrective against this pervasive sense of exceptionalism."" - North Carolina Historical Review