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The Visible Confederacy - Images and Objects in the Civil War South (Hardcover)
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The Visible Confederacy - Images and Objects in the Civil War South (Hardcover)
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The Visible Confederacy is a comprehensive analysis of the
commercially and government-generated visual and material culture
of the Confederate States of America. While historians have mainly
studied Confederate identity through printed texts, this book shows
that Confederates also built and shared a sense of who they were
through other media: theatrical performances, military clothing,
manufactured goods, and an assortment of other material. Examining
previously understudied and often unpublished visual and
documentary sources, Ross A. Brooks provides new perspectives on
Confederates' sense of identity and ideas about race, gender, and
independence, as well as how those conceptions united and divided
them. Brooks's work complements the historiography surrounding the
Confederate nation by revealing how imagery and objects offer new
windows on southern society and a richer understanding of
Confederate citizens. Brooks builds substantially upon previous
studies of the iconology and iconography of Confederate imagery and
material culture by adding a broader range of government and
commercially generated images and objects. He examines not only
popular or high art and government-produced imagery, but also
lowbrow art, transitory theatrical productions, and ephemeral
artifacts generated by southerners. Collectively, these materials
provide a variety of lenses through which to explore and assay the
various priorities, ideological fault lines, and worldviews of
Confederate citizens. Brooks's study is one of the first extensive
academic works to use imagery and objects as the basis for studying
the Confederate South. His work provides fresh avenues for
examining Confederate ideas about race, slavery, gender,
independence, and the war, and it offers insight into the
intentions and factors that contributed to the creation of
Confederate nationalism. The Visible Confederacy furthers our
understanding of what the Confederacy was, what Confederates fought
for, and why their vision has persisted in memory and imagination
for so long beyond the Confederacy's existence. Visual and material
culture captured not only the tensions, but also the illusions and
delusions that Confederates shared.
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