The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan
The myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederate States in the Civil War was and is an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of southerners to rationalise the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, for historical truth and the national memory, these skilful propagandists, beginning with Jubal Early, have been so successful that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own and continues to misrepresent what really happened, distorting the national memory in the process. In this book, nine historians analyse the Lost Cause, describing its content and identifying its falsity. The work is thus a major contribution to Civil War historiography.
年:
2000
出版:
1
出版社:
Indiana University Press
语言:
english
页:
240
ISBN 10:
0253222664
ISBN 13:
9780253338228
文件:
EPUB, 340 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2000