Atlanta, Cradle of the New South : Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath /

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After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the following fifty years came to represent the cont...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Link, William A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions
Race relations.
Memory > Social aspects.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
African Americans > Social conditions.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Noirs americains > Georgie (État) > Atlanta > Conditions sociales.
Memory > Social aspects > Georgia > Atlanta.
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > Social conditions.
United States.
Georgia > Atlanta.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Social conditions.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the following fifty years came to represent the contested meaning of the Civil War itself. The war's aftermath brought contentious transition from Old South to New for whites and African Americans alike. Historian William Link argues that this struggle defined the broader meaning of the Civil War in the modern South, with no place embodying the region's past a.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9781469608327

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