"By adding complexity and detail to a familiar story, Confederate Exodus provides a valuable service to historians of the Civil War era and, more broadly, Atlantic world migration in understanding this unusual and fascinating episode."—Phillip W. Magness, Journal of American History
"This impressively researched book on the Confederados . . . offers a fascinating look at a little-known aspect of post-Civil War American emigration. Confederate Exodus should especially appeal to those readers who are interested in Southern history."—Roger D. Cunningham, Journal of America's Military Past
"Marcus's book is an example of a type of scholarship that is all too rare in the American discussion of the Atlantic world, that of historical geography with a strong sense of place and networks."—Jeremy Black, New Criterion
“Well researched and masterfully presented. . . . Confederate Exodus brings to light important new information about the post–Civil War emigration of Americans to Brazil. Marcus adds a major contribution to our knowledge of this significant period in our history.”—Cyrus B. Dawsey, professor emeritus at Auburn University
“Alan Marcus tells a compelling story of migration, ranging from analysis of the Confederado cemetery that brought a former U.S. president to tears, to a reinterpretation of commercial and ideological processes encouraging Southern families to move to Brazil.”—Christian Brannstrom, professor of geography at Texas A&M University
“In this intriguing historical geography, Marcus illuminates the little-known postbellum migration of American Confederate veterans to Brazil. Rather than serving as a mere curiosity, the Confederado experience highlights migration, agriculture, race, and nation-building in two giants of the Western Hemisphere.”—Brian Godfrey, professor of geography at Vassar College
“Through a geographer’s lens Marcus dissects the anatomy of this complex migration from its substrata of ideologies, religion, science, international trade, and Freemasonry to the power of Southern migrants’ geographical imagination juxtaposed against the realities of Brazilian locales, agriculture, and racialized politics.”—Laura Jarnagin Pang, associate professor emerita, Division of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines
