Damn Yankees!: Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South

by George C. Rable

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080716058X
• ISBN13: 9780807160589
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.8"