The Confederate Experience Reader provides students and professors with the essential materials needed to understand and appreciate the major issues confronting the Southern Republic's brief existence during the American Civil War. This anthology covers the full history of the Confederate experience including the origins of the antebellum South; the rise of southern nationalism; the 1860 election and the subsequent Secession Crisis; the military conflict; and Reconstruction. Drawing from a full range of primary writings that describe the experience of living in the Southern Republic in vivid detail; as well as a careful selection of secondary works by prominent scholars in the field of confederate history; The Confederate Experience Reader allows students to situate the Confederate experience within the larger context of Southern and American history.
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful. Don't confuse Holocaust with "Holocaust" in your marketing.By John Barry KenyonIn a careful analysis; Tim Cole suggests that the actual holocaust is not be confused with the atrocities depicted in museums and movies. He argues; for example; that the movie Schindler's List blurs historical reality by emphasizing the "goodness" of Schindler himself and the happy outcome for the Jewish captives in his Czech factory in 1945. We all have to feel fine when leaving the cinema. Actually; much the same could be said about other movies not considered by Cole; for example Triumph of the Spirit which recounts the survival at Auschwitz of a Greek boxer. The author also feels that the establishment of so many holocaust memorials and museums may actually stimulate Revisionism by allowing holocaust deniers to pinpoint inaccuracies; for example of the Auschwitz (One) gas chamber is indeed a post war reconstruction for tourists. There is much well researched detail in this book; for example on Anne Frank whose Amsterdam house has become just another site for the curious and on Oskar Schindler himself who fled at the end of the war with his wife and mistress (contrary to the movie portrayal). It is Cole's honesty in showing up many holocaust myths that makes the book a convincing read. He is no apologist for nazi crimes; but he has opened an important debate about perception and reality in the mass media.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Two StarsBy CustomerCole's analysis is unoriginal and predictable.33 of 36 people found the following review helpful. How history is portrayedBy Philip Greenspan"Selling the Holocaust" is an excellent study of how history is presented. While Tim Cole uses the Holocaust as the subject for this particular study what he shows is how history generally develops at various times and in various places.History-at any particular time and place--is a refining and processing of pertinent facts with the cultural values of the existing establishment that creates a `myth' of the historic reality. Different times in the same place or different places at the same time result in varying `myths'.The subtitle of the book--"From Auschwitz to Schindler; How History is Bought; Packaged and Sold"-is most appropriate in expressing this manipulation of historic events to conform to a particular country's existing policies.Cole analyzes six subjects for illustration: the diary of Anne Frank; the trial of Adolf Eichmann; Steven Sondheim's film "Schindler's List"; the concentration camp at Auschwitz; the Israeli memorial of Yad Vashem; and the Holocaust museum in Washington; D.C.By exploring each; he shows us that in different places (Israel; United States; Poland) and at different times (post World War II; post six-day war; `80s; `90s) the Holocaust has been interpreted and portrayed differently. The cultural values of each unique time and place determine how we perceive the Holocaust.This is obviously a study of how all of history is revealed. Events looked at in distant places and times acquire different meanings-often at variance with what actually occurred. Writers who challenge conventional history by disclosing the truth are usually criticized as revisionists and are reviled and disregarded by the establishment.This analysis is obviously in conflict with the author's message and with other readers' interpretations. Nevertheless; it relies on six excellent case studies for validation.
