Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War

Name: Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780807832066

ISBN-10: 0807832065

ISBN-13: 9780807832066

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gary W. Gallagher

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More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war—why it was fought, what was won, what was lost—not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, renowned Civil War historian Gary Gallagher guides readers through the stories told in recent film and art, showing how they have both reflected and influenced the political, social, and racial currents of their times. Too often these popular portrayals overlook many of the very ideas that motivated the generation that fought the war. The most influential perspective for the Civil War generation, says Gallagher, is…

Book details

List price: $33.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/7/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Gary W Gallagher is a civil war historian with a special interest in the military aspects of the war. He is the author or co-author of several books including Lee and His Generals in War and Memory and The Confederate War. He has also served as President of the Association of Preservation of Civil War sites. He is a professor of history at the University of Virginia.



Introduction



A Contested Historical Landscape: The Civil War Generation Interprets the Conflict



Going But not Yet Gone: The Confederate War on Film



Emancipation and Reconciliation But not the Union: Hollywood and the North's Civil War



Brushes, Canvases, and the Lost Cause: The Ascendancy of Confederate Themes in Recent Civil War Art


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index