Enduring legacy rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause / W. Stuart Towns.
| Author/creator | Towns, W. Stuart, 1939- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, |
| Description | xvii, 190 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Rhetoric, celebration, and ritual: building a collective memory in the postwar South -- Remembering the Confederacy: ceremony in the postwar South, 1865-1920s -- The road to secession and war: the oratorical defense of the Confederacy and the Old South -- Creating the myths of the war: martyrs and scapegoats of the Confederacy -- Creating the myths of Reconstruction, redemption, reconciliation, and the new and future South: the rest of the story -- The persistence of a myth: the lost cause in the modern South. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-163, [165]-182) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011036633 |
| ISBN | 9780817317522 (trade cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780817385811 (electronic) |