Synopses & Reviews
"A comprehensive discussion of the ideas and feelings of supporters of the Confederacy during the Civil War and Reconstruction."
American Historical Review "A sophisticated explication of the creation, manifestation, adaptation, and persistence of Confederate nationalism."
The North Carolina Historical Review "Rubin's study provides valuable contributions to understanding the creation of the Confederate identity."
The Courier A rich portrait.
Drew Gilpin Faust, author of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War This important new study makes a strong and persuasive case.
James M. McPherson, Princeton University
Review
This important new study makes a strong and persuasive case.
James M. McPherson, Princeton University
Review
A rich portrait.
Drew Gilpin Faust, author of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Review
"A comprehensive discussion of the ideas and feelings of supporters of the Confederacy during the Civil War and Reconstruction."
American Historical Review
Review
"Rubin's study provides valuable contributions to understanding the creation of the Confederate identity."
The Courier
Review
"A sophisticated explication of the creation, manifestation, adaptation, and persistence of Confederate nationalism."
The North Carolina Historical Review
Synopsis
Exploring the creation, maintenance, and transformation of Confederate identity during the tumultuous years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Rubin sheds new light on the ways in which Confederates felt connected to their national creation and provides a provocative example of what happens when a nation disintegrates and leaves its people behind to forge a new identity.
About the Author
Anne Sarah Rubin is assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is coauthor, with Edward Ayers, of the electronic project Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War - The Eve of War.
Table of Contents
ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. War
Chapter 1. A Religious Patriotism: The Culture of Confederate Identity
Interlude: A Hope Fully Authorized by the Facts
Chapter 2. Love of Country, Love of Self: Challenges to Confederate Unity
Interlude: Only Not a Victory
Chapter 3. Enemies Like an Avalanche: Yankees, Slaves, and Confederate Identity
Interlude: Peace (with Independence Always)
Chapter 4. Blue-Black Is Our Horizon: The End of the War
Part II. Reconstruction
Chapter 5. Nursing the Embers: Race and Politics during Reconstruction
Interlude: To Receive the Oath and Brand of Slave
Chapter 6. To Restore Their Broken Fortunes: Reconstructing White Southern Identity
Interlude: The Vicarious Sufferer
Chapter 7. Who Shall Subjugate the Women? Gender and White Southern Identity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index