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Title:
Confederate minds : the struggle for intellectual independence in the Civil War South
Author:
Bernath, Michael T.
ISBN:
9780807895658

9781469603957

9780807833919
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 412 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Civil War America

Civil War America (Series)
Abstract:
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. Bernath makes provocat.
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