The long shadow of the Civil War : southern dissent and its legacies /
Bynum relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy, but against it. Focusing on regions in three Southern states--North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas--Bynum introduces Unionist supporters, guerrilla soldiers, defiant women, socialists, populists, fre...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Bynum relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy, but against it. Focusing on regions in three Southern states--North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas--Bynum introduces Unionist supporters, guerrilla soldiers, defiant women, socialists, populists, free blacks, and large interracial kin groups that belie stereotypes of the South and of Southerners as uniformly supportive of the Confederate cause. Centered on the concepts of place, family, and community, Bynum's insightful and carefully documented work effectively counters the idea of a unified So. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) : illustrations, map |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-205) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780807898215 080789821X 9781469604145 1469604140 1469609878 9781469609874 |