This War Ain't Over : Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America /

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"The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and film 'Gone with the Wind' and the scores of popular theater productions to Aaron Copeland's 'A Lincoln Portrait, ' it was...

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Autor principal: Silber, Nina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public opinion.
Politics and culture.
Memory > Social aspects.
Memory > Political aspects.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
New Deal, 1933-1939
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
New Deal.
Politique et culture > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Memory > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Memory > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Politics and culture > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Opinion publique.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Public opinion.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and film 'Gone with the Wind' and the scores of popular theater productions to Aaron Copeland's 'A Lincoln Portrait, ' it was hard to miss America's fascination with the war in the 1930s and 1940s. Nina Silber ... examines the often conflicting and politically contentious ways in which Americans remembered the Civil War era during the years of the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II. In doing so, she reveals how the debates and events of that earlier period resonated so profoundly with New Deal rhetoric about state power, emerging civil rights activism, labor organizing and trade unionism, and popular culture in wartime"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (248 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469646565

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