The Limits of the Lost Cause : Essays on Civil War Memory

Gaines M Foster

ISBN 10: 0807171387 / ISBN 13: 9780807171387

Published by LSU Press Apr 2024, 2024

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Neuware - ' 'The Limits of the Lost Cause' is a collection of essays that challenge the prevailing ways of thinking about the impact of the Civil War on the American South. Foster's introduction provides a comprehensive overview of scholarship on the Lost Cause and Civil War memory that highlights the emergence of two ways of thinking about these topics: an older one, pioneered by C. Vann Woodward, that made a case for a southern identity shaped by defeat and guilt; and a more recent one, prevalent not only in current scholarship but in the press and public discussion, that suggests the South is still fighting the Civil War.'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Limits of the Lost Cause : Essays on Civil War Memory
• Publisher: LSU Press Apr 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807171387
• ISBN 13: 9780807171387
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 218W x 147H x 30D millimeters 218 millimeters width by 147 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 567 grams

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Synopsis

The Limits of the Lost Cause challenges prevailing ways of thinking about the impact of the Civil War on the American South. Above all, Gaines Foster’s work encourages Americans to confront the new divisions within their society even as they wrestle with old national―not just southern―failings.

About the Author

Gaines M. Foster is the Murphy J. Foster Professor of History Emeritus at Louisiana State University and author of Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865 to 1913.