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Confederate Visions - Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War (Hardcover)
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Confederate Visions - Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War (Hardcover)
Series: A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
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Nationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a
collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with
meaning and understanding. In Confederate Visions, Ian Binnington
examines the roots of Confederate nationalism by analysing some of
its most important symbols: Confederate constitutions, treasury
notes, wartime literature, and the role of the military in
symbolising the Confederate nation. Nationalisms tend to construct
a glorified past, an idyllic picture of national strength, honor,
and unity, with a past often based on a vision of what should be
true rather than what actually was. Binnington considers here the
ways in which the Confederacy was imagined by antebellum
Southerners through a group of intertwined mythic concepts—the
""Worthy Southron,"" the ""Demon Yankee,"" the ""Silent Slave,""
and a sense of shared history deemed Confederate Americanism. These
symbols were repeatedly invoked and entwined by the producers of
Confederate nationalism. The Worthy Southron, the constructed
Confederate self, was imagined as a champion of liberty,
counterposed to the Demon Yankee other, a fanatical abolitionist
and enemy of Liberty. The Silent Slave, meanwhile, was a companion
to the vocal Confederate self, loyal and trusting, reliable and
honest. The road to the creation of an American identity was
fraught with struggle, political conflict, and ultimately bloody
Civil War. Confederate Visions examines literature, newspapers and
periodicals, visual imagery, and formal state documents to explore
the origins and development of these symbols of wartime Confederate
nationalism.
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Imprint: |
University of Virginia Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era |
Release date: |
November 2013 |
First published: |
November 2013 |
Authors: |
Ian Binnington
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8139-3500-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8139-3500-8 |
Barcode: |
9780813935003 |
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