Damn Yankees! : demonization & defiance in the Confederate South

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Label

Damn Yankees! : demonization & defiance in the Confederate South

Title remainder

demonization & defiance in the Confederate South

Statement of responsibility

George C. Rable

Creator

• Rable, George C

Subject

• Politics and government
• Propaganda, Confederate
• Propaganda, Confederate
• Secession
• Secession -- Southern States
• Southern States
• United States -- Confederate States of America
• Confederate States of America -- Politics and government

Language

eng

Summary

"During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy. Damn Yankees! explores the proliferation of this rhetoric and demonstrates how the perpetual vilification of northerners became a weapon during the war, fostering hatred and resistance among the people of the Confederacy. Drawing from speeches, cartoons, editorials, letters, and diaries, Damn Yankees! examines common themes in southern excoriation of the enemy. In sharp contrast to the presumed southern ideals of chivalry and honor, Confederates claimed that Yankees were rootless vagabonds who placed profit ahead of fidelity to religious and social traditions. Pervasive criticism of northerners created a framework for understanding their behavior during the war. When the Confederacy prevailed on the field of battle, it confirmed the Yankees' reputed physical and moral weakness. When the Yankees achieved military success, reports of depravity against vanquished foes abounded, stiffening the resolve of Confederate soldiers and civilians alike to protect their homeland and the sanctity of their women from Union degeneracy."--Publisher's Web site

Member of

• Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973.7/13

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E487

LC item number

.R183 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in Southern History, Louisiana State University