Description: Confederate Visions examines literature, newspapers and periodicals, visual imagery, and formal state documents to explore the origins and development of wartime Confederate nationalism.
Review Quotes:
Nations are 'imagined communities' based on 'invented traditions, ' we are told. Few have explained just how the South sought to create its imagined community, or dissected the traditions it borrowed, with more skill and verve than Ian Binnington in this fresh new book that takes us to the very heart of the South's daring project--the creation of a new nation in the mind of the South.
--Don H. Doyle, McCausland Professor of History, University of South Carolina