Enduring legacy rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause /

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Towns, W. Stuart, 1939-
Körperschaft: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Rhetoric, celebration, and ritual: building a collective memory in the postwar South
  • Remembering the Confederacy: ceremony in the postwar South, 1865-1920s
  • The road to secession and war: the oratorical defense of the Confederacy and the Old South
  • Creating the myths of the war: martyrs and scapegoats of the Confederacy
  • Creating the myths of Reconstruction, redemption, reconciliation, and the new and future South: the rest of the story
  • The persistence of a myth: the lost cause in the modern South.