A shattered nation [[electronic resource] ] : the rise and fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868 / / Anne Sarah Rubin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462550803321
• Autore: Rubin Anne S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005
• ISBN: 0-8078-8895-8; 1-4696-0483-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Collana: Civil War America
• Disciplina: 973.7/13
• Soggetti: Nationalism - Confederate States of America - History; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Electronic books.; Confederate States of America Politics and government; Confederate States of America Social conditions; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865; Southern States History 1775-1865; Southern States History 1865-1877
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-314) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. WAR; 1. A Religious Patriotism: The Culture of Confederate Identity; INTERLUDE: A Hope Fully Authorized by the Facts; 2. Love of Country, Love of Self: Challenges to Confederate Unity; INTERLUDE: Only Not a Victory; 3. Enemies Like an Avalanche: Yankees, Slaves, and Confederate Identity; INTERLUDE: Peace (with Independence Always); 4. Blue-Black Is Our Horizon: The End of the War; PART II. RECONSTRUCTION; 5. Nursing the Embers: Race and Politics during Reconstruction; INTERLUDE: To Receive the Oath and Brand of Slave; 6. To Restore Their Broken Fortunes: Reconstructing White Southern IdentityINTERLUDE: The Vicarious Sufferer; 7. Who Shall Subjugate the Women? Gender and White Southern Identity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
• Sommario/riassunto: Historians often assert that Confederate nationalism had its origins in pre-Civil War sectional conflict with the North, reached its apex at the start of the war, and then dropped off quickly after the end of hostilities. Anne Sarah Rubin argues instead that white Southerners did not actually begin to formulate a national identity until it became evident that the Confederacy was destined to fight a lengthy war against the Union. She also demonstrates that an attachment to a symbolic or sentimental Confederacy existed independent of the political Confederacy and was therefore able to persist we