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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Confederate Nationalism"”.
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"""They Have Made a Nation"": Confederates and the Creation of Confederate Nationalism"
"This research revolves around questions of nationalism and identity, broadly construed, cultural iconography and the role of symbols in identity formation, and the place of the American Civil War in the development of that nation. This dissertation starts from the premise that nationalism in …
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A Tale of Two Cities: Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi During the American Civil War
… civilians to quickly develop feelings of Confederate nationalism, while their Natchez counterparts, loyal to their city and their national trade networks, were more pro-Unionist but used Confederate nationalism when it suited their interests. Ironically, only after the war did the people …
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Southern Pride and Yankee Presence: The Limits of Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi, 1860-1865
… Mississippi from 1860 to 1865 as a case-study of Confederate nationalism. It employs interdisciplinary literature on the concept of loyalty to explore how multiple allegiances influenced people during the Civil War. Historians have generally viewed Confederate nationalism as weak or strong, with …
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The Real and the Ideal: Margaret Junkin Preston and Woman's Increasing Role in the Culture of the South, 1820--1897
… cultural life of the South. It concludes that Confederate nationalism provided southern women with the opportunity to expand their place during the Civil War, and that these women maintained their new boundaries after defeat. Preston, who spent the first twenty-eight years of her life in the …
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Maligned “Milish:” Mississippi Militiamen in the Civil War
… and forties, were older than the average Confederate soldier, established community members, and heads of families who sought service near home. The Mississippi state government, however, visualized militia service as anything but local and developed a centralized militia system that …
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A Lost Cause Found: Vestiges of Old South Memory in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
This dissertation examines issues of neo-Confederate collective memory, heritage, and geographical imagination within the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I analyze a whole range of material cultural practices throughout the entire region centered on the memory of the Civil War including monuments, …