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Never Surrender - Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry (Hardcover, New)
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Never Surrender - Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry (Hardcover, New)
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The most focused and detailed history of southern conservatism to
date. Near Appomattox, during a cease-fire in the final hours of
the Civil War, Confederate general Martin R. Gary harangued his
troops to stand fast and not lay down their arms. Stinging the
soldiers' home-state pride, Gary reminded them that "South
Carolinians never surrender." By focusing on a reactionary hotbed
within a notably conservative state--South Carolina's hilly western
"upcountry" --W. Scott Poole chronicles the rise of a post-Civil
War southern culture of defiance whose vestiges are still among us.
The Society of the rustic antebellum upcountry, Poole writes, clung
to a set of values that emphasized white supremacy, economic
independence, masculine honor, evangelical religion, and a
rejection of modernity. In response to the Civil War and its
aftermath, this amorphous tradition cohered into the Lost Cause
myth, by which southerners claimed moral victory despite military
defeat. It was a force that would undermine Reconstruction and, as
Poole shows in chapters on religion, gender, and politics, weave
its way into nearly every dimension of white southern life. Poole
traces the evolution of Lost Cause ideology in South Carolina from
its prewar genesis through Reconstruction and the New South era,
from its romanticized agrarian roots to its appropriation by the
entrepreneurial middle-class. Focused but malleable, Lost Cause
conservatism informed a variety of social movements in the
postbellum period, from the Ku Klux Klan to the ostensibly
progressive Populists. The Lost Cause's shadow still looms over the
South, Poole argues, in contemporary controversies such as those
over the display of the Confederate flag.Never Surrender brings new
clarity to the intellectual history of southern conservatism and
the South's collective memory of the Civil War.
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