Confederate Minds

The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South

Michael T. Bernath (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2013 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-0728-3 (ISBN)

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During the Civil War, some Confederates sought to prove the distinctiveness of the southern people and to legitimate their desire for a separate national existence through the creation of a uniquely southern literature and culture. Michael Bernath follows the activities of a group of southern writers, thinkers, editors, publishers, educators, and ministers--whom he labels Confederate cultural nationalists--in order to trace the rise and fall of a cultural movement dedicated to liberating the South from its longtime dependence on Northern books, periodicals, and teachers. By analysing the motives driving the struggle for Confederate intellectual independence, by charting its wartime accomplishments, and by assessing its failures, Bernath makes provocative arguments about the nature of Confederate nationalism, life within the Confederacy, and the perception of southern cultural distinctiveness.

Michael T. Bernath is Charlton W. Tebeau Assistant Professor in American History at the University of Miami, USA.

Reihe/Serie	Civil War America
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 233 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4696-0728-X / 146960728X
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-0728-3 / 9781469607283
Zustand	Neuware