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Published: 11/2018
Subject: Business and Economics
Pages: 264
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At the heart of this book is an examination of how historical
memory offers people a means of understanding and defining
themselves in the present. Silber reveals how, during a moment of
enormous national turmoil, the events and personages of the Civil
War provided a framework for reassessing national identity, class
conflict, and racial and ethnic division. The New Deal era may have
been the first time Civil War memory loomed so large for the nation
as a whole, but, as the present moment suggests, it was hardly the
last.
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