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Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War (A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era)
Ian Binnington
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Description for Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War (A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era)
Hardcover. Series: Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Nationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with meaning and understanding. In Confederate Visions, Ian Binnington examines the roots of Confederate nationalism by analysing some of its most important symbols: Confederate constitutions, treasury notes, wartime literature, and the role of the military in symbolising the Confederate nation.
Nationalisms tend to construct a glorified past, an idyllic picture of national strength, honor, and unity, with a past often based on a vision of what should be true rather than what actually was. Binnington considers here the ways in which the Confederacy was imagined ... Read more
Nationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with meaning and understanding. In Confederate Visions, Ian Binnington examines the roots of Confederate nationalism by analysing some of its most important symbols: Confederate constitutions, treasury notes, wartime literature, and the role of the military in symbolising the Confederate nation.
Nationalisms tend to construct a glorified past, an idyllic picture of national strength, honor, and unity, with a past often based on a vision of what should be true rather than what actually was. Binnington considers here the ways in which the Confederacy was imagined ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813935003
SKU
V9780813935003
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About Ian Binnington
Ian Binnington is Associate Professor of History at Allegheny College, USA.
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