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Confederate Phoenix – Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina: Reconstructing America

Autor Edmund L. Drago
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 oct 2008
In this innovative book, Edmund L. Drago tells the first full story of white children and their families in the most militant Southern state, and the state where the Civil War erupted. Drawing on a rich array of sources, many of them formerly untapped, Drago shows how the War transformed the domestic world of the white South. Households were devastated by disease, death, and deprivation. Young people took up arms like adults, often with tragic results. Thousands of fathers and brothers died in battle; many returned home with grave physical and psychological wounds. Widows and orphans often had to fend for themselves.From the first volley at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor to the end of Reconstruction, Drago explores the extraordinary impact of war and defeat on the South Carolina home front. He covers a broad spectrum, from the effect of boy soldierson the ideals of childhood and child rearing to changes in education, marriage customs, and community as well as family life. He surveys the children's literature of the era and explores the changing dimensions of Confederate patriarchal society. By studying the implications of the War and its legacy in cultural memory, Drago unveils the conflicting perspectives of South Carolina children-white and black-today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780823229376
ISBN-10: 0823229378
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 8 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: ME – Fordham University Press
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Recenzii

"A richly researched study of the war's impact on children in the heart of the Confederacy." - Steven Mintz, University of Houston, author of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood "Confederate Phoenix provides a realistic, unvarnished, and dramatic view of the South Carolina experience during the Civil War. Written in clear, supple prose, this book contains exceptionally rich material on childhood and the War's impact on all civilians. It is a must-read for all historians of the family and the War in the South." - Joan Cashin, The Ohio State University"

Notă biografică

Edmund L. Drago is Professor of History at the College of Charleston. His most recent book is Charleston¿s Avery Center: From Education to Preserving the African American Experience.