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Great Task Remaining Before Us : Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War.

Using case studies, this book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cimbala, Paul
Otros Autores: Miller, Randall M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Colección:Reconstructing America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: An Unfinished War
  • A Victory Spoiled: West Tennessee Unionists during Reconstruction
  • â€?â€?I Wanted a Gunâ€?â€?: Black Soldiers and White Violence in Civil War and Postwar Kentucky and Missouri
  • â€?â€?The Rebel Spirit in Kentuckyâ€?â€?: The Politics of Readjustment in a Border State, 1865â€?1868
  • The Crucible of Reconstruction: Unionists and the Struggle for Alabamaâ€?s Postwar Home Front
  • â€?â€?A New Field of Laborâ€?â€?: Antislavery Women, Freedmenâ€?s Aid, and Political Power
  • €?â€?Objects of Humanityâ€?â€?: The White Poor in Civil War and Reconstruction GeorgiaRacial Identity and Reconstruction: New Orleansâ€?s Free People of Color and the Dilemma of Emancipation
  • â€?â€?My Children on the Fieldâ€?â€?: Wade Hampton, Biography, and the Roots of the Lost Cause
  • Rebels in War and Peace: Their Ethos and Its Impact
  • Reconstructing Loyalty: Love, Fear, and Power in the Postwar South
  • Reconstructing the Nation, Reconstructing the Party: Postwar Republicans and the Evolution of a Party
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index