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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Anne Sarah Rubin. A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861–1868. (Civil War America.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. x, 319. $34.95.

In this book, Anne Sarah Rubin reproduces the words and arguments of Confederates to explore the nature of Confederate nationalism. Based on a reading of the print culture of the Confederacy and some private letters and diaries, Rubin looks at Confederate nationalism through the eyes of its proponents rather than opponents. As such, she presents us with a comprehensive discussion of the ideas and feelings of supporters of the Confederacy during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Unfortunately, Rubin's decision to leave unionists, dissenters, and African Americans out of her narrative, and the conflation of the term southerner with Confederate, yields a rather uncritical picture of Confederate nationalism. Even her discussion of women and gender relations in the Confederacy goes against recent, more complex portrayals of southern women during the Civil War and harks back to older stereotypes of all southern white women as die-hard Confederates and rebels.

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