The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West by Hulbert, Matthew Christopher

The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820350028)

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The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West by Hulbert, Matthew Christopher

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

$34.95
The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West by Hulbert, Matthew Christopher

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

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

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.

Author: Matthew Christopher Hulbert
ISBN-10: 0820350028
ISBN-13: 9780820350028
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2016
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.09w x 0.82d

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Choice 06/01/2017
By Matthew Christopher Hulbert
By Matthew Christopher Hulbert
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MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER HULBERT is an assistant professor of history at Hampden-Sydney College. Winner of the Wiley-Silver Prize for The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers became Gunslingers in the American West (Georgia), Hulbert is also coeditor of Writing History With Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America and The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth.

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