| Description |
xvii, 190 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Group identity -- Southern States.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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English language -- Southern States -- Rhetoric.
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Southern States.
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Oratory -- Southern States -- History.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
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Southern States -- Civilization.
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Confederate States of America -- History.
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Southern States -- Languages -- History.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780817317522 (trade cloth alk. paper) |
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9780817385811 (e-book) |
| OCLC # |
EBC835705 |
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