The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South

The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South
ISBN-10
0807116068
ISBN-13
9780807116067
Category
History
Pages
110
Language
English
Published
1989-12-01
Publisher
LSU Press
Author
Drew Gilpin Faust

Description

For decades, historians have debated the meaning and significance of Confederate nationalism and the role it played in the outcome of the Civil War. Yet they have paid little attention to the actual development and content of this Confederate ideology. In The Creation of Confederate Nationalism, Drew Gilpin Faust argues that coming to a fuller understanding of southern thought during the Civil War period offers a valuable refraction of the essential assumptions on which the Old South and the Confederacy were built. She shows the benefits of exploring Confederate nationalism “as the South’s commentary upon itself, as its effort to represent southern culture to the world at large, to history, and perhaps most revealingly, to its own people.”

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