The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South

The Creation of Confederate Nationalism

Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South

1988 • 130 pages

For decades, historians have debated the meaning and significance of Confederate nationalism and the role it played in the outcome of the Civil War. Yet they have paid little attention to the actual development and content of this Confederate ideology. In The Creation of Confederate Nationalism, Drew Gilpin Faust argues that coming to a fuller understanding of southern thought during the Civil War period offers a valuable refraction of the essential assumptions on which the Old South and the Confederacy were built. She shows the benefits of exploring Confederate nationalism “as the South’s commentary upon itself, as its effort to represent southern culture to the world at large, to history, and perhaps most revealingly, to its own people.”

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Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History

Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History is a 3-book series first released in 1983 with contributions by Eric Foner, Drew Gilpin Faust, and Dan T. Carter.

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