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Burying the Dead but Not the Past : Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause /
Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organised the retrieval of the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern whi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organised the retrieval of the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, this book restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Janney explores new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781469602226 |