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Chargement... The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860 (1979)par John McCardell
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But a series of shocks--social, economic, intellectual, and, finally, political--gave an increasingly distinctive twist to the ideology of nationalism that developed in the South. By 1860, through agreeing with the North over constitutional fundamentals and sharing with other Americans similar hopes and fears, many Southerners had concluded that only in a separate Southern nation could their rights and security be preserved. This book is a study of how and why the ideology of Southern nationalism arose and spread. It attempts to explain within the framework of an evolving national character how Northern and Southern versions of American nationalism, both of which professed allegiance to the Constitution, led to civil war. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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McCardell's subject is very broad and often treated in broad strokes. At the outset he raises anthropologist Clifford Geertz's concept of ideology as "a response to social, cultural, or ideological strain," a tool for imposing meaning on otherwise incomprehensible events. As such, ideology is "highly figurative" and, once accepted, is normally clung to with determination. The model is useful, but McCardell only applies it to the tariff crisis in South Carolina in the 1830s. For the most part the book is a series of well written portraits of prominent southerners that add richness and complexity to the reader's understanding of the period. If its concepts, including southern nationalism, are not always consistently defined, the book makes up for this by providing a broad perspective on many simultaneous tendencies in southern culture. This book is also exceptional for taking a serious approach to antebellum southern intellectual life.