{"product_id":"confederate-visions-ian-binnington-9780813935003","title":"Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003eNationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with meaning and understanding. In \u003ci\u003eConfederate Visions, \u003c\/i\u003e Ian Binnington examines the roots of Confederate nationalism by analyzing some of its most important symbols: Confederate constitutions, treasury notes, wartime literature, and the role of the military in symbolizing the Confederate nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNationalisms tend to construct glorified pasts, idyllic pictures of national strength, honor, and unity, based on visions of what should have been rather than what actually was. Binnington considers the ways in which the Confederacy was imagined by antebellum Southerners employing intertwined mythic concepts--the \"Worthy Southron,\" the \"Demon Yankee,\" the \"Silent Slave\"--and a sense of shared history that constituted a distinctive Confederate Americanism. The Worthy Southron, the constructed Confederate self, was imagined as a champion of liberty, counterposed to the Demon Yankee other, a fanatical abolitionist and enemy of Liberty. The Silent Slave was a companion to the vocal Confederate self, loyal and trusting, reliable and honest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe creation of American national identity was fraught with struggle, political conflict, and bloody Civil War. \u003ci\u003eConfederate Visions\u003c\/i\u003e examines literature, newspapers and periodicals, visual imagery, and formal state documents to explore the origins and development of wartime Confederate nationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian Binnington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813935008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813935003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.19h x 6.32w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2014","brand":"Ian Binnington","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43947306156287,"sku":"9780813935003","price":39.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_15d3d448-6ea0-49d4-92b3-2b1c86356793.jpg?v=1681517936","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/confederate-visions-ian-binnington-9780813935003","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}