Robert J. Cook

Civil War Memories (eBook, ePUB)

Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Cook makes clear the powerful ways that the reverberations of the Civil War still resonate within American political culture. A compelling story." -Joan Waugh, author ofU. S. Grant Winner of the 2018 Book Prize in American Studies of the British Association of American Studies At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves.Civil War Memoriesis the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion in 1865. Drawing on an array of textual and visual sources as well as a wide range of modern scholarship on Civil War memory, Robert J. Cook charts the construction of four dominant narratives by the ordinary men and women, as well as the statesmen and generals, who lived through the struggle and its tumultuous aftermath. Part One explains why the Yankee victors' memory of the "War of the Rebellion" drove political conflict into the 1890s, then waned with the passing of the soldiers who had saved the republic. Part Two demonstrates the Civil War's capacity to thrill twentieth-century Americans in movies such asThe Birth of a NationandGone with the Wind. It also reveals the war's vital connection to the black freedom struggle in the modern era. Written in vigorous prose for a wide audience and designed to inform popular debate on the relevance of the Civil War to the racial politics of modern America,Civil War Memoriesis required reading for informed Americans today. "Fast-paced, well-researched, and gripping." -John David Smith, author ofA Just and Lasting Peace

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781421423500
• Artikelnr.: 60990731

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Cook is a professor of American history at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic and a coauthor of Secession Winter: When the Union Fell Apart.