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When the War Was Over : The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865--1867 /
In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an increased level of violence to the region as local authorities of the former Confederacy were stripped of their power and the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[1985]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Social disorder and violence in the land of the vanquished
- 2. Self-reconstruction begins: the failure of the strait-sect unionism
- 3. Southern realism and southern honor: the limits of self-reconstruction
- 4. Uncertain prophets in the land of the vanquished
- 5. The proslavery argument in a world without slavery
- 6. Self-reconstruction: the final act
- 7. Political alternatives in the land of fog and confusion.