The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The ""Great Truth"" About the ""Lost Cause - Image 1

£69.99

University Press of Mississippi The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The ""Great Truth"" About the ""Lost Cause

Name: The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The ""Great Truth"" About the ""Lost Cause
Brand: University Press of Mississippi
Price: 69.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

19th Century

Price data last checked 92 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£70 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 9 days • 9 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 9 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £70 (9 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £70 - £70

Price levels: 1 different prices over 9 days

Description

Resounding documentary proof that the original reasoning behind secession and subsequent myth-making was in defense of slavery and white supremacy Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two-thirds of Americans--including most history teachers--think the Confederate States seceded for "states' rights." This error persists because most have never read the key documents about the Confederacy. The 150th anniversary of secession and civil war provides a moment for all Americans to read these documents, properly set in context by award-winning sociologist and historian James W. Loewen and coeditor Edward H. Sebesta, to put in perspective the mythology of the Old South. When South Carolina seceded, it published "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union." The document actually opposes states' rights. Its authors argue that Northern states were ignoring the rights of slave owners as identified by Congress and in the Constitution. Similarly, Mississippi's "Declaration of the Immediate Causes . . ." says, "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery--the greatest material interest of the world." Later documents in this collection show how neo-Confederates obfuscated this truth, starting around 1890. The evidence also points to the centrality of race in neo-Confederate thought even today and to the continuing importance of neo-Confederate ideas in American political life. James W. Loewen, Washington, D.C., is the best-selling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong and Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong. He is also the author of Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks; Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism; Social Science in the Classroom; and Mississippi: Conflict and Change. He is professor emeritus at the University of Vermont. Edward H. Sebesta, Dallas, Texas, is a coeditor of Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction. His articles have appeared in numerous journals.

Product Specifications

Brand: University Press of Mississippi
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1604732180
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Americas > United States > 19th Century
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 September 2010
Listed Since: 22 April 2010

Barcode

No barcode data available

University Press of Mississippi The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The ""Great Truth"" About the ""Lost Cause

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!

Reconstruction: People and Perspectives (Perspectives in American Social History)

For Church and Confederacy: The Lynches of South Carolina

So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the Civil War–Era North

Slavery, War, and a New Birth of Freedom: 1840s-1877 (History Through Literature)

The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture (Rewriting Histories)

The Legacy of St. George Tucker: College Professors in Virginia Confront Slavery and Rights of States, 1771-1897

Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States

Yankee Town, Southern City: Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg: 14 (The American Social Experience)

The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory

True Jersey Blues: The Civil War Letters of Lucien A. Voorhees and William McKenzie Thompson, 15th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers

Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South

Unreconstructed: Slavery and Emancipation on Louisiana's Red River, 1820-1880 (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

Everything You Were Taught About American Slavery is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!

Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South

The Consequences of Confederate Citizenship: The Civil War Correspondence of Alabama's Pickens Family (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

James Z. George: Mississippi's Great Commoner

Routledge - The War for a Nation: The American Civil War

A Political Nation: New Directions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political History

Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History

Lincoln's Enduring Legacy: Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment

Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860

Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America Series)

Reconstruction in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography: 43 (Bibliographies and Indexes in American History)