The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West - Brossura

Hulbert, Matthew Christopher

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ISBN 10: 0820350028 ISBN 13: 9780820350028

Casa editrice: Univ of Georgia Pr, 2016

Riassunto

<p>The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the guerrilla theater, the conflict was a vast sequence of home invasions, local traumas, and social degeneration that did not necessarily end in 1865. This book chronicles the history of “guerrilla memory,” the collision of the Civil War memory “industry” with the somber realities of irregular warfare in the borderlands of Missouri and Kansas.</p><p>In the first accounting of its kind, Matthew Christopher Hulbert’s book analyzes the cultural politics behind how Americans have remembered, misremembered, and re-remembered guerrilla warfare in political rhetoric, historical scholarship, literature, and film and at reunions and on the stage. By probing how memories of the guerrilla war were intentionally designed, created, silenced, updated, and even destroyed, Hulbert ultimately reveals a continent-wide story in which Confederate bushwhackers—pariahs of the eastern struggle over slavery—were transformed into the vanguards of American imperialism in the West.</p>

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Informazioni sull?autore

MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER HULBERT is a lecturer in the Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy at Texas A&amp;M University, Kingsville and co-editor of <i>The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth</i>.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0820350028
• ISBN 13: 9780820350028
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 327
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile