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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...

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Autor principal: Bynum, Victoria E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : kinship, community, and place in the old and the new South
  • Guerrilla wars : plain folk resistance to the Confederacy
  • Occupied at home : women confront Confederate forces in North Carolina's Quaker belt
  • Disordered communities : freedpeople, poor Whites, and "mixed blood" families in Reconstruction North Carolina
  • Fighting a losing battle : Newt Knight versus the U.S. Court of Claims, 1870-1900
  • Civil War Unionists as new South radicals : Mississippi and Texas, 1865-1920
  • Negotiating boundaries of race and gender in Jim Crow Mississippi : the women of the Knight family
  • Epilogue : fathers and sons.