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Through the Heart of Dixie
Anne Sarah Rubin
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Description for Through the Heart of Dixie
Paperback. Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory Series: Civil War America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the Heart of Dixie, Anne Sarah Rubin uncovers and unpacks stories and myths about the March from a wide variety of sources, including African Americans, women, Union soldiers, Confederates, and even Sherman himself. Drawing her evidence from an array of media, including travel accounts, memoirs, literature, films, and newspapers, Rubin uses the competing and contradictory stories as a lens into the ways that American thinking about the Civil War has changed over time.
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Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the Heart of Dixie, Anne Sarah Rubin uncovers and unpacks stories and myths about the March from a wide variety of sources, including African Americans, women, Union soldiers, Confederates, and even Sherman himself. Drawing her evidence from an array of media, including travel accounts, memoirs, literature, films, and newspapers, Rubin uses the competing and contradictory stories as a lens into the ways that American thinking about the Civil War has changed over time.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Civil War America
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469633404
SKU
V9781469633404
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Ref
99-67
About Anne Sarah Rubin
Anne Sarah Rubin is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the author of A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868.
Reviews for Through the Heart of Dixie
An exceptionally creative and ambitious study, like nothing else that I can think of in the field of Civil War history.-Civil War Monitor An engrossing exploration of the ways in which the march has been recounted and understood over the years.-The Wall Street Journal One of the more innovative books which has been published this year on the ... Read more