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Gary W. (Hrsg.) Gallagher

The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

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Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against thesuperior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds forthe cause of states' rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate andintentional effort on the part of Southerners to rationalize the secession and thewar itself. Unfortunately, skillful propagandists have been so successful inpromoting this romanticized view that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own.Misrepresenting the war's true origins and its actual course, the myth of the LostCause distorts our national memory. In The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil WarHistory, nine histo… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Nolan, Alan T. (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-253-22266-4
  • EAN: 9780253222664
  • Produktnummer: 7281929
  • Verlag: Indiana University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.6 cm 378 g
  • Gewicht: 378
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He has written or edited a number of books in the field of Civil War era history, including, most recently, The Confederate War, Lee and His Generals in War and Memory; and Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War.Alan T. Nolan (1923 2008) is author of Lee Considered: Robert E. Lee and Civil War History and The Iron Brigade: A Military History (IUP, 1994), and editor (with Sharon Eggleston Vipond) of Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade (IUP, 1998).

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