Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South 1865 to 1913
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0195054202
ISBN-13
9780195054200
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 16th, 1989
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
416 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 21.50 x 2.40 cms
Ksh 7,900.00
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Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals, this book explores how white southerners interpreted the Civil War, accepted defeat, and readily embraced reunion and a New South. It reveals that while the Lost Cause was a central force in shaping late 19th-century southern culture, the legacy of defeat ultimately had little impact on southern behavior.
Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals, this book explores how white southerners adjusted to and interpreted their defeat, and analyses the cultural implications of a central event in American history. Foster argues that, contrary to southern folklore, southerners actually accepted their loss, rapidly embraced both reunion and a New South, and helped to foster sectional reconciliation and an emerging social order.
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