After Appomattox : Military Occupation and the Ends of War /
The Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. A second phase commenced which lasted until 1871-not Reconstruction but genuine belligerency whose mission was to crush slavery and create civil and political rights for freed people. But as Gregory Downs shows, military occupation pos...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2015]
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Edición: | Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Sources
- Introduction. The War That Could Not End
- 1. After Surrender
- 2. Emancipation at Gunpoint
- 3. The Challenge of Civil Government
- 4. Authority without Arms
- 5. The War in Washington
- 6. A False Peace
- 7. Enfranchisement by Martial Law
- 8. Between Bullets and Ballots
- 9. The Perils of Peace
- Conclusion. A Government without Force
- Appendixes
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index