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Reconstruction in Alabama : From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South /

The civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social history of emancipation and the hope that reunification would bring equality. Much of the revisionist work served to counter and correct the racist and pro-Confederat...

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Autor principal: Fitzgerald, Michael W., 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A mere lapsus : Unionists and conservative dissidents during the Civil War
  • The last relicks of barbarism : army, war, and reconstruction
  • Presidential Reconstruction : Unionism and the politics of definition
  • The premature New South of Governor Robert Patton
  • Black Liberation : freedom and political mobilization
  • Implementing Reconstruction : governance and biracial politics
  • The difference between whaling a freeman and pounding a slave : terrorism and resistance in the Klan era
  • Railroads, race, and Reconstruction : the curious legacy of Governor William H. Smith
  • Bipartisan disaster : the advent of Governor Robert Lindsay
  • False dawn : the promise of Reconstruction in the early 1870s
  • Beneath the white banner : depression and the overthrow of Reconstruction
  • "It only requires a little more figuring" : redemption's aftermath.